MICR Code: 766020502

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000689
MICR Code: 766020502
Address: At By Post Lanjigarh, Lanjigarh, Pin 766020
City: Kalahandi
District: Lanjigarh
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 766020502.

  • In this case first three codes 766 is city code and it represents city Kalahandi.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 502 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address At By Post Lanjigarh, Lanjigarh, Pin 766020.

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.