MICR Code: 600020011
| Bank: Indian Overseas Bank |
| IFSC Code: Ioba0000091 |
| MICR Code: 600020011 |
| Address: 116, Thiagaraya Road, T. Nagar, Chennai 600 017 |
| City: Chennai |
| District: Chennai |
| 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 600020011.
- In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
- Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
- Remaining characters which are 011 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 116, Thiagaraya Road, T. Nagar, Chennai 600 017.
The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your
- Bank account statement
- Cheques
Please examine below sample cheque for more details
I hope this clears doubts.