MICR Code: 621020308

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000760
MICR Code: 621020308
Address: Main Road Alathur Gate Pin 621109
City: Perambalur
District: Alathurgate
State: Tamil Nadu

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 621020308.

  • In this case first three codes 621 is city code and it represents city Perambalur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 308 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Main Road Alathur Gate Pin 621109.

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.