MICR Code: 638020505

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001023
MICR Code: 638020505
Address: 3 2 16 Main Road, Rajan Nagar Via Bhavanisagar Rajan Nagar Pin 638451
City: Erode
District: Rajan Nagar
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 638020505.

  • 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 505 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 3 2 16 Main Road, Rajan Nagar Via Bhavanisagar Rajan Nagar Pin 638451.

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.