MICR Code: 622020008

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000368
MICR Code: 622020008
Address: 37 Main Road Illupur Pin 622102
City: Thiruvallur
District: Tiruvallur
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 622020008.

  • In this case first three codes 622 is city code and it represents city Thiruvallur.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 008 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 37 Main Road Illupur Pin 622102.

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.