MICR Code: 516240642

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002015
MICR Code: 516240642
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd. D - Block, Main Town, Kohima 797001
City: Kohima
District: Kohima
State: Nagaland

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 516240642.

  • In this case first three codes 516 is city code and it represents city Kohima.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 642 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd. D - Block, Main Town, Kohima 797001.

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.