MICR Code: 505240542

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0004170
MICR Code: 505240542
Address: 14 64 2 8 Nagaram Road Husnabad Hyderabad Telangana505467
City: Karimnagar
District: Husnabad
State: Telangana

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 505240542.

  • In this case first three codes 505 is city code and it represents city Karimnagar.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 542 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 14 64 2 8 Nagaram Road Husnabad Hyderabad Telangana505467.

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.