MICR Code: 638020011

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001350
MICR Code: 638020011
Address: 45 A New 51 Salem Main Road Komarapalayam Pin 638183
City: Namakkal
District: Komarapalayam
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 638020011.

  • In this case first three codes 638 is city code and it represents city Namakkal.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 011 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 45 A New 51 Salem Main Road Komarapalayam Pin 638183.

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.