MICR Code: 152240206

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003141
MICR Code: 152240206
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd Adjoining Telephone Exchange, Vpo Sikhwala, Distt. Mukatsar,152113 Sikhwala Punjab 152113
City: Muktsar
District: Malout
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 152240206.

  • In this case first three codes 152 is city code and it represents city Muktsar.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 206 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd Adjoining Telephone Exchange, Vpo Sikhwala, Distt. Mukatsar,152113 Sikhwala Punjab 152113.

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.