MICR Code: 805020003

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0003794
MICR Code: 805020003
Address: Opp. Raj Cinema, Main Road Warisaliganj
City: Nawada
District: Warisaliganj
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 805020003.

  • In this case first three codes 805 is city code and it represents city Nawada.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Opp. Raj Cinema, Main Road Warisaliganj.

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.