MICR Code: 638020509

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000683
MICR Code: 638020509
Address: 42, Sathi Athani Road Dasappa Gounden Pudur Pin 638503
City: Erode
District: Dasappagoundenpudur
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 638020509.

  • In this case first three codes 638 is city code and it represents city Erode.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 509 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 42, Sathi Athani Road Dasappa Gounden Pudur Pin 638503.

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.