MICR Code: 271240402

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002159
MICR Code: 271240402
Address: Premises No - 194, Ward No 3, Station Road,
City: Bahraich
District: Nanpara
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 271240402.

  • In this case first three codes 271 is city code and it represents city Bahraich.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Premises No - 194, Ward No 3, Station Road,.

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.