MICR Code: 151240312

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001458
MICR Code: 151240312
Address: Bahadurpur Bareta Roadnr. Main Bahadurpur Bareta Crossingvillage Bahadurpur,
City: Bokaro
District: Bahadurpur
State: Punjab

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 151240312.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Bokaro.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 312 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bahadurpur Bareta Roadnr. Main Bahadurpur Bareta Crossingvillage Bahadurpur,.

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.