MICR Code: 251020002

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000580
MICR Code: 251020002
Address: 246, Arya Puri Town Hall Rd, Muzaffarnagar
City: Muzaffar Nagar
District: Muzaffarnagar
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 251020002.

  • In this case first three codes 251 is city code and it represents city Muzaffar Nagar.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 246, Arya Puri Town Hall Rd, Muzaffarnagar.

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.