MICR Code: 627020096

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0002888
MICR Code: 627020096
Address: 5 By58f, Sankarankoil Road, Sriram Nagar, Ramayanpatti, Thatchanallur Post,627358
City: Tirunelvali
District: Tirunelveli
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 627020096.

  • 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 096 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 5 By58f, Sankarankoil Road, Sriram Nagar, Ramayanpatti, Thatchanallur Post,627358.

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.