MICR Code: 636020010

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001780
MICR Code: 636020010
Address: District Court Compound, Hasthampatti, Salem636007
City: Salem
District: Salem
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 636020010.

  • In this case first three codes 636 is city code and it represents city Salem.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 010 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address District Court Compound, Hasthampatti, Salem636007.

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.