MICR Code: 735020002

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000511
MICR Code: 735020002
Address: Lab Kush Building, Babu Para, Jalpaiguri Pin 735101
City: Jalpaiguri
District: Jalpaiguri
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 735020002.

  • In this case first three codes 735 is city code and it represents city Jalpaiguri.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 002 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Lab Kush Building, Babu Para, Jalpaiguri Pin 735101.

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.