MICR Code: 500020040

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002397
MICR Code: 500020040
Address: D No 8 2 293 By 82 By L By 284 By A, Ground Floor, Mla S Colony, Road No 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad
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 500020040.

  • 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 040 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address D No 8 2 293 By 82 By L By 284 By A, Ground Floor, Mla S Colony, Road No 12, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad.

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.