MICR Code: 627020017

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001396
MICR Code: 627020017
Address: 339 340, Swamy Sannathi Street, Tenkasi Pin 62781
City: Tirunelvali
District: Tenkasi
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 627020017.

  • In this case first three codes 627 is city code and it represents city Tirunelvali.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 017 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 339 340, Swamy Sannathi Street, Tenkasi Pin 62781.

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.