MICR Code: 600020179

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002285
MICR Code: 600020179
Address: Katchiamman Modern Rice Mill Compound, Bye Ass Road, Kamaraj Nagar, Red Hills Chennai, Tamilnadu 600052
City: Thiruvallur
District: Red Hills
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 600020179.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Thiruvallur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 179 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Katchiamman Modern Rice Mill Compound, Bye Ass Road, Kamaraj Nagar, Red Hills Chennai, Tamilnadu 600052.

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.