MICR Code: 148240059

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003462
MICR Code: 148240059
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd., Opp. Dera Mukatsar Sahib, Vpo Moom, Sangrur Punjab 148100
City: Sangrur
District: Sangrur
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 148240059.

  • In this case first three codes 148 is city code and it represents city Sangrur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 059 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd., Opp. Dera Mukatsar Sahib, Vpo Moom, Sangrur Punjab 148100.

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.