MICR Code: 700240064

Bank: HDFC Bank
IFSC Code: Hdfc0001162
MICR Code: 700240064
Address: Unit No.300 Tower 3A Plot No. Iif/11 New Town Rajarhat Kolkata West Bengal
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 700240064.

  • 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 064 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Unit No.300 Tower 3A Plot No. Iif/11 New Town Rajarhat Kolkata West Bengal.

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.