MICR Code: 574020526

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000185
MICR Code: 574020526
Address: Kumara Kripa Car Street Subrahmanya Pin 574238
City: Dakshin Kannad
District: Subramanya
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 574020526.

  • In this case first three codes 574 is city code and it represents city Dakshin Kannad.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 526 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kumara Kripa Car Street Subrahmanya Pin 574238.

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.