MICR Code: 143240256

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002695
MICR Code: 143240256
Address: New Bijli Foundry Near Sales Tax Office Amritsar Road, Batala Gurdaspur Punjab 143505
City: Gurdaspur
District: Batala
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 143240256.

  • In this case first three codes 143 is city code and it represents city Gurdaspur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 256 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address New Bijli Foundry Near Sales Tax Office Amritsar Road, Batala Gurdaspur Punjab 143505.

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.