MICR Code: 700020007

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0000480
MICR Code: 700020007
Address: 4, Ballabh Das St, Machua Bazaar, Kolkata
City: Kolkata
District: Kolkata
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 700020007.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Kolkata.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 007 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 4, Ballabh Das St, Machua Bazaar, Kolkata.

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.