MICR Code: 440240003

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0000502
MICR Code: 440240003
Address: Sharda Complex, Near Telephone Exchange Square, Central Avenue, Nagpurmaharashtra440 008
City: Nagpur
District: Nagpur
State: Maharashtra

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 440240003.

  • In this case first three codes 440 is city code and it represents city Nagpur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sharda Complex, Near Telephone Exchange Square, Central Avenue, Nagpurmaharashtra440 008.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.