MICR Code: 500240074
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 500240074.
- In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
- Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 074 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd H No1 Mig 115 24 1 Nyr Chambers Grd1st Flr Kphb Colony Main Road Kukatpally Hyderabad Telangana 500072.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.