MICR Code: 690020803

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001963
MICR Code: 690020803
Address: St. Johns Higher Second. Sch. Bld, Mattom, Thattarambalam P.O, Mavelikara, Pin 690103
City: Alapuzha
District: Chettikulangara
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 690020803.

  • In this case first three codes 690 is city code and it represents city Alapuzha.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 803 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address St. Johns Higher Second. Sch. Bld, Mattom, Thattarambalam P.O, Mavelikara, Pin 690103.

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.