MICR Code: 273240005

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0004217
MICR Code: 273240005
Address: Plot No 5 Buddha Vihar Shara State Road Taramandal Gorakhpur Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh273008
City: Gorakhpur
District: Gorakhpur
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 273240005.

  • In this case first three codes 273 is city code and it represents city Gorakhpur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Plot No 5 Buddha Vihar Shara State Road Taramandal Gorakhpur Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh273008.

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.