MICR Code: 612020011

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001075
MICR Code: 612020011
Address: Middle Street, Sholapuram, Pin 612503
City: Thanjavur
District: Sholapuram
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 612020011.

  • In this case first three codes 612 is city code and it represents city Thanjavur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 011 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Middle Street, Sholapuram, Pin 612503.

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.