MICR Code: 638240003

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001589
MICR Code: 638240003
Address: No 279 First Floorerode
City: Erode
District: Erode
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 638240003.

  • In this case first three codes 638 is city code and it represents city Erode.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No 279 First Floorerode.

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.