MICR Code: 600020123

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001738
MICR Code: 600020123
Address: 55 Arcot Road Valasaravakkam Chennai Pin600087
City: Chennai
District: Valasaravakkam
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 600020123.

  • In this case first three codes 600 is city code and it represents city Chennai.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 123 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 55 Arcot Road Valasaravakkam Chennai Pin600087.

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.