MICR Code: 211240010

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0004498
MICR Code: 211240010
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd 13 Sulem Sarai Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 211011
City: Allahabad
District: Allahabad
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 211240010.

  • In this case first three codes 211 is city code and it represents city Allahabad.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd 13 Sulem Sarai Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 211011.

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.