MICR Code: 151020152

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002247
MICR Code: 151020152
Address: Sangam Palace Faridkot Road Kot Kapura Faridkot Dist 151204
City: Faridkot
District: Kot Kapura
State: Punjab

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 151020152.

  • In this case first three codes 151 is city code and it represents city Faridkot.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 152 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Sangam Palace Faridkot Road Kot Kapura Faridkot Dist 151204.

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.