MICR Code: 625020005

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000898
MICR Code: 625020005
Address: Church Building, Alagarkoil Road,K Pudur, Madurai Pin 625007
City: Madurai
District: Madurai
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 625020005.

  • In this case first three codes 625 is city code and it represents city Madurai.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 005 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Church Building, Alagarkoil Road,K Pudur, Madurai Pin 625007.

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.