GATE 2027 in Bhilai-Durg: IIT Kharagpur Zone, Raipur and IIT Bhilai

Search the official exam-city list for Bhilai and you will not find it on its own. Nor will you find Durg. The list has one combined name, "Bhilai-Durg", printed under Chhattisgarh in the IIT Kharagpur zone. That is the option to tick whether you live in Bhilai, in Durg or anywhere around them.

Chhattisgarh has two other names in the same block, Raipur and Bilaspur. Each is its own choice. Picking Raipur does not include Bhilai-Durg, and picking Bhilai-Durg does not include Raipur. If you would be happy writing in either, list both.

A small trap while scrolling: the list also has a Bilaspur under Himachal Pradesh, in the IIT Roorkee zone. That is a different town. The Bilaspur that can go on a Bhilai-Durg form is the one under Chhattisgarh.

The rules behind all this are short. Six choices, all from one zone. The list is tentative, so GATE can add or remove a city, and it may allot one outside your six if it must. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Chhattisgarh's neighbours are spread over four different zones, which matters if you study or work outside the state.

Exam city	State	Zone
Bhilai-Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur	Chhattisgarh	IIT Kharagpur
Sambalpur, Rourkela	Odisha	IIT Kharagpur
Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur	Maharashtra	IIT Bombay
Jabalpur, Satna	Madhya Pradesh	IIT Kanpur
Hyderabad	Telangana	IISc

Nagpur is the big city to the west, and it is easy to assume it counts as a back-up. It is IIT Bombay zone, so it cannot be a back-up to Bhilai-Durg. Jabalpur and Satna fall in the IIT Kanpur zone, and Hyderabad in the IISc zone. Your nearest same-zone choices outside Chhattisgarh are Sambalpur and Rourkela in Odisha.

If you would rather write in Nagpur, the whole form has to be an IIT Bombay one, and Bhilai-Durg comes off it. The Nagpur page covers that list.

You have three Chhattisgarh names. The other three come from the rest of the IIT Kharagpur zone: Odisha, Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh), south and central West Bengal including Kolkata, and nine Andhra Pradesh cities such as Visakhapatnam. One order that keeps you close:

1. Bhilai-Durg
2. Raipur
3. Bilaspur
4. Sambalpur
5. Rourkela
6. Bhubaneswar, Ranchi or Kolkata, wherever you have a place to stay

If your hostel is in Raipur, it can make sense to put Raipur first and Bhilai-Durg second. Lead with the city where you will physically be on exam weekends. For slots four to six, a relative's home counts for more than a short distance on the map, because you may need to arrive the evening before.

The Raipur page covers the same zone from the capital's side.

Bhilai-Durg's coordinating institute is IIT Kharagpur. The contact exactly as listed: IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, gateonline@adm.iitkgp.ac.in, 03222-282091 and 03222-282095. Write from your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID.

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

Registration is closed; the special window ended on 16 October 2026. The official dates page lists the data correction window as TBA. City allotment is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA, and only the admit card gives your centre and reporting time. As soon as you have it, look the centre up and plan the trip from where you will sleep. Centres are not always in the part of town you know.

Writing DA and CS together is allowed in GATE 2027. The official page says the second paper's centre may be different, though in the same city, so check both addresses.

Take the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and whatever else the admit card lists. Its instructions are the final word. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

Three institutes with GATEiit pages are in this part of Chhattisgarh.

• IIT Bhilai. Its permanent campus is in Kutelabhata village, Bhilai, Durg district. The institute's own site gives the distance as about 5.4 km from Durg railway station and about 54 km from Swami Vivekananda Airport at Mana, Raipur.
• NIT Raipur, on G.E. Road, Raipur.
• IIIT Naya Raipur, at Plot No. 7, Sector 24, Atal Nagar.

Each page explains that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. Further out, students here also consider IIT Kharagpur, NIT Rourkela and VNIT Nagpur. The full list is on /institutes.

Where you write GATE has no bearing on admission. A Bhilai-Durg centre gives no advantage at IIT Bhilai.

GATEiit is free and online. It has no centre or office in Bhilai, Durg or any other city.

Pick your paper first. GATE DA is Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; GATE CSE is Computer Science and Information Technology. Both pages carry the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link for that paper.

Then move to past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a plan, and /guides has more. The six exam days are all Saturdays and Sundays, so a weekly full mock on a weekend morning fits the real timetable.

For the national picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.