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  7. MICR: 700240028

MICR Code: 700240028

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0000718
MICR Code: 700240028
Address: Dn - 1, Eternity Building, Sector V, Salt Lake City
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
State: West Bengal

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 700240028.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 240 represents bank HDFC Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 028 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dn - 1, Eternity Building, Sector V, Salt Lake City.

How to find micr code (for example 700240028) from bank account number?

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.