MICR Code: 560020046

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002896
MICR Code: 560020046
Address: Ground Floor,8 Th Cross, Balaji Layout, Kodigehalli Main Road, Bangalore 560092
City: Bangalore Urban
District: Bangalore
State: Karnataka

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 560020046.

  • In this case first three codes 560 is city code and it represents city Bangalore Urban.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 046 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Ground Floor,8 Th Cross, Balaji Layout, Kodigehalli Main Road, Bangalore 560092.

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.