MICR Code: 171020002

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001908
MICR Code: 171020002
Address: Rajkiya Kanya Maha Vidyalaya Longwood, Sanjouli Road Shimla Pin 171001
City: Jhunjhunu
District: Shimla
State: Rajasthan

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 171020002.

  • In this case first three codes 171 is city code and it represents city Jhunjhunu.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Rajkiya Kanya Maha Vidyalaya Longwood, Sanjouli Road Shimla Pin 171001.

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.