MICR Code: 500020030

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001715
MICR Code: 500020030
Address: Old Alwal, Secunderabad, Secunderabad, Pin 50010
City: Hyderabad Urban
District: Secunderabad Cantonment
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 500020030.

  • In this case first three codes 500 is city code and it represents city Hyderabad Urban.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 030 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Old Alwal, Secunderabad, Secunderabad, Pin 50010.

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.