MICR Code: 251020003

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0003001
MICR Code: 251020003
Address: Arya Samaj Rd Mizzafernagar D A V College Market 1 St Flr Arya Samaj Rd Muzaf Up 251 001
City: Muzaffarnagar
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 251020003.

  • In this case first three codes 251 is city code and it represents city Muzaffarnagar.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 003 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Arya Samaj Rd Mizzafernagar D A V College Market 1 St Flr Arya Samaj Rd Muzaf Up 251 001.

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.