MICR Code: 689020804

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001488
MICR Code: 689020804
Address: St Marys Orthodox Cathe Bc Centenary Memorial Bldgs Puthencavu Chengannur
City: Alapuzha
District: Chengannur
State: Kerala

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 689020804.

  • In this case first three codes 689 is city code and it represents city Alapuzha.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 804 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address St Marys Orthodox Cathe Bc Centenary Memorial Bldgs Puthencavu Chengannur.

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.