MICR Code: 788020002

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001460
MICR Code: 788020002
Address: Netaji Subhash Avenue Hailakandi Road Silchar Pin 788005
City: Cachar
District: Silchar
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 788020002.

  • In this case first three codes 788 is city code and it represents city Cachar.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Netaji Subhash Avenue Hailakandi Road Silchar Pin 788005.

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.