MICR Code: 226240019

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002861
MICR Code: 226240019
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd Security Section, Air Force Station Memaura , P.O Banthra, Lucknow., Uttar Pradesh 227001
City: Banthra
District: Banthra
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 226240019.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Banthra.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 019 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd Security Section, Air Force Station Memaura , P.O Banthra, Lucknow., Uttar Pradesh 227001.

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.