MICR Code: 700020034

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001426
MICR Code: 700020034
Address: 1245 A By 1 Raja Scmallick Rd, Garia, 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 700020034.

  • 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 034 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address 1245 A By 1 Raja Scmallick Rd, Garia, 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.