MICR Code: 610020012

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000896
MICR Code: 610020012
Address: 101, Gandhi Road, Mannargudi Pin 614001
City: Thiruvarur
District: Mannargudi
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 610020012.

  • In this case first three codes 610 is city code and it represents city Thiruvarur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 012 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 101, Gandhi Road, Mannargudi Pin 614001.

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.