MICR Code: 700020047

Bank: Indian Overseas Bank
IFSC Code: Ioba0001187
MICR Code: 700020047
Address: Bara Tajpur Village And Via Begumpur Baratajpur Pin 712306
City: Hugli
District: Serampore
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 700020047.

  • In this case first three codes 700 is city code and it represents city Hugli.
  • Next three characters 020 represents bank Indian Overseas Bank.
  • Remaining characters which are 047 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Bara Tajpur Village And Via Begumpur Baratajpur Pin 712306.

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.