MICR Code: 462020003

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001115
MICR Code: 462020003
Address: 68, Zone Ii, Ward No 47,M P Nagar Bhopal Pin 462011
City: Bhopal
District: Bhopal
State: Madhya Pradesh

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 462020003.

  • In this case first three codes 462 is city code and it represents city Bhopal.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 68, Zone Ii, Ward No 47,M P Nagar Bhopal Pin 462011.

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.