MICR Code: 590020501

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002521
MICR Code: 590020501
Address: Site 1160 Budnur Village Belgaum Dt Karnataka
City: Belgaum
District: Salahalli
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 590020501.

  • In this case first three codes 590 is city code and it represents city Belgaum.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Site 1160 Budnur Village Belgaum Dt Karnataka.

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.