MICR Code: 784020003

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001139
MICR Code: 784020003
Address: Besseria Pin 784150
City: Sonitpur
District: Besseria
State: Assam

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 784020003.

  • In this case first three codes 784 is city code and it represents city Sonitpur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Besseria Pin 784150.

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.