MICR Code: 572020521

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000974
MICR Code: 572020521
Address: Doddaghatta, Thandaga Gate, Turuvekere Tk, Thandaga, Pin 572224
City: Chitradurga
District: Tandaga
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 572020521.

  • In this case first three codes 572 is city code and it represents city Chitradurga.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 521 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Doddaghatta, Thandaga Gate, Turuvekere Tk, Thandaga, Pin 572224.

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.