MICR Code: 731020601

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001121
MICR Code: 731020601
Address: Bahina More, Kanachi, Mollarpur, Kanachi, Pin 731216
City: Birbhum
District: Birbhum
State: West Bengal

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 731020601.

  • In this case first three codes 731 is city code and it represents city Birbhum.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 601 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bahina More, Kanachi, Mollarpur, Kanachi, Pin 731216.

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.