MICR Code: 231240151

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001917
MICR Code: 231240151
Address: 11/49, Plot No.177 G A Transport Nagar, Shiva Park, Renukoot Uttar Pradesh
City: Sonbhadra
District: Renukoot
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 231240151.

  • In this case first three codes 231 is city code and it represents city Sonbhadra.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 151 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 11/49, Plot No.177 G A Transport Nagar, Shiva Park, Renukoot Uttar Pradesh.

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.