MICR Code: 500020036

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002220
MICR Code: 500020036
Address: Banjara Hills Branch, Ground Floor,8 2 418, Road No 7 Banjara Hills 500 034
City: Hyderabad
District: Hyderabad
State: Andhra 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 500020036.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 036 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Banjara Hills Branch, Ground Floor,8 2 418, Road No 7 Banjara Hills 500 034.

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.