MICR Code: 144240912

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001833
MICR Code: 144240912
Address: Ward No. 2 Ground Floor & First Floor Opp. Tehsil Complex
City: Nawanshahr
District: Balachaur
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 144240912.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Nawanshahr.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 912 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ward No. 2 Ground Floor & First Floor Opp. Tehsil Complex.

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.