MICR Code: 272240202

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002156
MICR Code: 272240202
Address: Khalilabad House No 59, Ward No 21, Shastri Nagar Pin 272175
City: Sant Kabir Nagar
District: Khalilabad
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 272240202.

  • In this case first three codes 272 is city code and it represents city Sant Kabir Nagar.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 202 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Khalilabad House No 59, Ward No 21, Shastri Nagar Pin 272175.

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.