MICR Code: 600020227

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0003262
MICR Code: 600020227
Address: 73 23 North Mada Street Ecr Road Thiruvanmiyur Chennai 600041
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 600020227.

  • 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 227 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 73 23 North Mada Street Ecr Road Thiruvanmiyur Chennai 600041.

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.