MICR Code: 248020501

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002305
MICR Code: 248020501
Address: Suddowla Vill And Po, Sahaspur Tehsil, Dehradun Dist, Uttrakhand
City: Jharsuguda
District: Sahaspur
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 248020501.

  • In this case first three codes 248 is city code and it represents city Jharsuguda.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 501 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Suddowla Vill And Po, Sahaspur Tehsil, Dehradun Dist, Uttrakhand.

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.