MICR Code: 605020024

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000617
MICR Code: 605020024
Address: 29 B Mariamman Koil Street Nettapakkam Pin 605106
City: Pondicherry
District: Nettapakkam
State: Puducherry

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 605020024.

  • In this case first three codes 605 is city code and it represents city Pondicherry.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 024 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 29 B Mariamman Koil Street Nettapakkam Pin 605106.

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.