MICR Code: 600020114

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001790
MICR Code: 600020114
Address: 49 Vandikaran St Maduvankarai Guindy Chennai600032
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 600020114.

  • 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 114 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 49 Vandikaran St Maduvankarai Guindy Chennai600032.

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.