MICR Code: 700240055

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001931
MICR Code: 700240055
Address: 20/A, S.N. Banarjee Road Budge Budge South 24 Parganas
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700240055.

  • 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 055 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 20/A, S.N. Banarjee Road Budge Budge South 24 Parganas.

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.