MICR Code: 605020007

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001705
MICR Code: 605020007
Address: 5 Murugan Complex, Puducherry Villupuram Main Rd, Thirubuvanai, Puducherry
City: Pondicherry
District: Pondicherry
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 605020007.

  • 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 007 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5 Murugan Complex, Puducherry Villupuram Main Rd, Thirubuvanai, Puducherry.

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.