MICR Code: 742240102

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0002420
MICR Code: 742240102
Address: Vill Gopal Nagar, Raghunathganj, Jangipur, Dist. Murshidabad, Jangipur West Bengal 742225
City: Murshidabad
District: Jangipur
State: West Bengal

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 742240102.

  • In this case first three codes 742 is city code and it represents city Murshidabad.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Vill Gopal Nagar, Raghunathganj, Jangipur, Dist. Murshidabad, Jangipur West Bengal 742225.

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.