MICR Code: 600240080

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002043
MICR Code: 600240080
Address: No.50, 1 St Main Road Cit Nagar Nandanam
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

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 600240080.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 080 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.50, 1 St Main Road Cit Nagar Nandanam.

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.