MICR Code: 520020005

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001067
MICR Code: 520020005
Address: 40 9 27, Ring Rd, Ground Floor, Adjacent To Telco Yard, Near Benz Circle, Vijayawada
City: Krishna
District: Vijayawada
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 520020005.

  • In this case first three codes 520 is city code and it represents city Krishna.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 40 9 27, Ring Rd, Ground Floor, Adjacent To Telco Yard, Near Benz Circle, Vijayawada.

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.