MICR Code: 781020005

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001510
MICR Code: 781020005
Address: North East Frontier Railway Head Quarters Maligaon Guwahati Pin 781011
City: Bongaigaon
District: Mulagaon
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 781020005.

  • In this case first three codes 781 is city code and it represents city Bongaigaon.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address North East Frontier Railway Head Quarters Maligaon Guwahati Pin 781011.

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.