MICR Code: 793020002

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000541
MICR Code: 793020002
Address: Morello Building, Europian Ward, Shillong, Pin 793001
City: East Khasi Hills
District: Shillong
State: Meghalaya

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 793020002.

  • In this case first three codes 793 is city code and it represents city East Khasi Hills.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Morello Building, Europian Ward, Shillong, Pin 793001.

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.