MICR Code: 581020402

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001626
MICR Code: 581020402
Address: 1 St Floor Moody Bazaar, Yellapur Road, Sirsi, Uttara Kannada Dt Sirsi 581402
City: Uttar Kannad
District: Sirsi
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 581020402.

  • In this case first three codes 581 is city code and it represents city Uttar Kannad.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 402 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 1 St Floor Moody Bazaar, Yellapur Road, Sirsi, Uttara Kannada Dt Sirsi 581402.

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.