MICR Code: 226020004

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001087
MICR Code: 226020004
Address: Kusum Deep Buldg,2 Block No 3, Neebu Bagh, Goldarwaja Chowk, Lucknow
City: Lucknow
District: Lucknow
State: Uttar Pradesh

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 226020004.

  • In this case first three codes 226 is city code and it represents city Lucknow.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 004 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Kusum Deep Buldg,2 Block No 3, Neebu Bagh, Goldarwaja Chowk, Lucknow.

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.