MICR Code: 242240052

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0003589
MICR Code: 242240052
Address: Bareily Mod, South City, Madha, Lalpur, Shahjahanpur Uttar Pradesh 242226
City: Fatehpur
District: Shahjahanpur
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 242240052.

  • In this case first three codes 242 is city code and it represents city Fatehpur.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 052 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bareily Mod, South City, Madha, Lalpur, Shahjahanpur Uttar Pradesh 242226.

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.