MICR Code: 140020103

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001877
MICR Code: 140020103
Address: Ajoli Nayanangal Pin 140126
City: Chandigarh
District: Chandigarh
State: Chandigarh

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 140020103.

  • In this case first three codes 140 is city code and it represents city Chandigarh.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 103 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ajoli Nayanangal Pin 140126.

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.