MICR Code: 741020102

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001583
MICR Code: 741020102
Address: 16 By 1 D L Roy Road, Bowbazar, Krishna Nagar Po
City: Purbi Champaran
District: Krishna Nagar
State: Bihar

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 741020102.

  • In this case first three codes 741 is city code and it represents city Purbi Champaran.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 102 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 16 By 1 D L Roy Road, Bowbazar, Krishna Nagar Po.

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.