MICR Code: 606020017

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002809
MICR Code: 606020017
Address: 458, Old Police Lane, Chengam, Tiruvannamalai Dist,606701
City: Tiruvannamalai
District: Chengam
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 606020017.

  • In this case first three codes 606 is city code and it represents city Tiruvannamalai.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 017 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 458, Old Police Lane, Chengam, Tiruvannamalai Dist,606701.

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.