MICR Code: 496020501

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002935
MICR Code: 496020501
Address: 578 By 12 Gandhi Chowk Near M G College, Raigarh Road, Kharsia C.G. Pin 496661
City: Raigarh
District: Kharsia
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 496020501.

  • In this case first three codes 496 is city code and it represents city Raigarh.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 578 By 12 Gandhi Chowk Near M G College, Raigarh Road, Kharsia C.G. Pin 496661.

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.