MICR Code: 144240902

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002889
MICR Code: 144240902
Address: Dhanju Sales Corp., Kapurthala Road, Talwandi Chaudrian Tehs Il, Sultanpur Lodhi Kapurthala Punjab 144626
City: Kapurthala
District: Talwandi Choudhrian
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 144240902.

  • In this case first three codes 144 is city code and it represents city Kapurthala.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 902 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dhanju Sales Corp., Kapurthala Road, Talwandi Chaudrian Tehs Il, Sultanpur Lodhi Kapurthala Punjab 144626.

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.