MICR Code: 208240012

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003177
MICR Code: 208240012
Address: Hdfc Bank Ltd. Gayakumari Yadav Kanya Inter Colleg Mardanpur Kanpur Nagar Uttar Pradesh 209305
City: Kanpur City
District: Kanpur
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 208240012.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Kanpur City.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Hdfc Bank Ltd. Gayakumari Yadav Kanya Inter Colleg Mardanpur Kanpur Nagar Uttar Pradesh 209305.

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.