GATE 2027 in Amritsar: Exam City, IIT Roorkee Zone and Nearby Institutes

The official exam-city page has seven Punjab entries: Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Pathankot and Patiala. Every one of them is in the IIT Roorkee zone.

Amritsar is a single, plain entry. The district administration lists six tehsils: Amritsar-I, Amritsar-II, Ajnala, Baba Bakala, Majitha and Lopoke. None of the others has its own GATE entry, so a student from Ajnala or Baba Bakala also picks Amritsar or another listed city. The same goes for Tarn Taran, which the Tarn Taran district site says is bounded by Amritsar district to the north. It is not on the list.

The rules: you choose six cities, all six from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE may add or remove a city, or allot you one outside your choices. GATE 2027 is held only in India. Your admit card gives the exact centre.

Amritsar sits near the edge of the zone, so most of your back-ups lie to the east and south. A workable order for someone living in the city:

1. Amritsar
2. Jalandhar-Phagwara
3. Pathankot
4. Ludhiana
5. Mohali-Chandigarh
6. Patiala or Bathinda

Pathankot deserves a thought if you live towards Gurdaspur. The Pathankot district gives it as 39 km from Gurdaspur and 110 km from Amritsar. Gurdaspur itself is not an exam city.

If you study in Himachal or Uttarakhand, those cities are in the same zone too, so one or two of your six can be near your college. The Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Chandigarh pages cover the neighbours.

If home is in Jammu and Kashmir, or you work or study in Delhi NCR, check the zone before you add those cities. They are IIT Delhi zone.

On the list	Zone	Can it go with Amritsar?
Pathankot	IIT Roorkee	Yes
Jammu - Samba	IIT Delhi	No
Srinagar	IIT Delhi	No
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad	IIT Delhi	No
Ambala	IIT Roorkee	Yes

The Pathankot district site puts Jammu 112 km from Pathankot, about the same as Amritsar. Distance does not decide anything here, though. If home is in Jammu and you study in Amritsar, pick one zone and keep all six in it. The Jammu and Srinagar pages show the IIT Delhi side.

The district's weather page says the cold season runs from November to March, that January is generally the coldest month, and that occasional fog occurs in the cold season. Every GATE 2027 paper falls in February. If your centre is outside the city, or you are coming in from another town, plan to be there the evening before rather than leave at dawn.

For travel from elsewhere in Punjab, the Jalandhar district describes Jalandhar City as a major stop on the Amritsar-Delhi rail link, served by the New Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi among other trains. It places Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport at Amritsar about 75 km north-west of Jalandhar.

Find your centre a day early. Take the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the application, and whatever else the card lists. If you write DA and CS together, the two-paper page says the second centre may differ but will be in the same city.

Exam-city questions for Amritsar go to the IIT Roorkee zone office, Roorkee 247 667: gate@iitr.ac.in, 01332-284531. Write from the email you registered with and quote your enrolment ID.

Questions about the application or the papers go to the organising institute, IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

The important dates page gives 4 January 2027 for the city allotment notification. The admit card date is TBA. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

None of the institutes with a GATEiit page is in Amritsar. The nearest ones are in other Punjab cities and Chandigarh:

• NIT Jalandhar, in Jalandhar.
• IIT Ropar, at Rupnagar.
• PEC Chandigarh, in Sector 12, Chandigarh.

Further off are IIT Jammu and the Himachal institutes such as NIT Hamirpur. Each page sets out that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates; /institutes has the rest.

The city you sit the exam in has no effect on admission anywhere.

GATEiit is free and online. It has no office or classroom in Amritsar or anywhere else.

Begin with your paper page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link.

Past papers are at /pyq and topic sets at /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a week-by-week plan, and /guides has more. All six exam dates are Saturdays and Sundays, so put your full mocks on weekend mornings and get used to working in a cold room. The GATE 2027 page and the city overview cover everything else.