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MICR Code: 600020211

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002922
MICR Code: 600020211
Address: No.6,5 Th Main Street Nandanam Main Road Extn, Chennai 600035
City: Chennai
District: Chennai
State: Tamil Nadu

What is MICR Code?

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.

Details of MICR Code

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 600020211.

  • 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 211 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address No.6,5 Th Main Street Nandanam Main Road Extn, Chennai 600035.

How to find micr code (for example 600020211) from bank account number?

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.