MICR Code: 208020004

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000741
MICR Code: 208020004
Address: 117 By H1 By 02 Paliwal Bhawan Narendra Mohan Setu Marg Pandu Nagar Kanpur
City: Cuttack
District: Kanpur
State: Odisha

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 208020004.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Cuttack.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 117 By H1 By 02 Paliwal Bhawan Narendra Mohan Setu Marg Pandu Nagar Kanpur.

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.