MICR Code: 530020523
| Bank: Indian Overseas Bank |
| IFSC Code: Ioba0001168 |
| MICR Code: 530020523 |
| Address: Via Vaddadi Buchaipeta Mandal Buchaipeta Pin 531121 |
| City: Vishakhapatnam |
| District: Vaddadi |
| 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 530020523.
- In this case first three codes 530 is city code and it represents city Vishakhapatnam.
- Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 523 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Via Vaddadi Buchaipeta Mandal Buchaipeta Pin 531121.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.