GATE 2027 in Dehradun: IIT Roorkee Zone, Exam Cities and Institutes

The GATE 2027 exam-city page has five names for Uttarakhand: Almora, Dehradun, Haldwani, Pauri-Garhwal and Roorkee. Dehradun is listed once, as "Dehradun". Roorkee is its own entry, not part of Dehradun.

All five are in the IIT Roorkee zone. That zone also covers Himachal Pradesh (Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla-Solan, Una), Punjab (Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Pathankot, Patiala), Ambala in Haryana, and five western Uttar Pradesh cities: Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar and NOIDA.

The rule: you choose six cities, and all six must come from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE can add or remove a city, and may allot you one outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India. Haridwar and Rishikesh are not on the list, so a student there picks Dehradun or Roorkee.

Because Roorkee is a separate city in your zone, a Doon student gets a natural second choice close to home. One way to fill the form:

1. Dehradun
2. Roorkee
3. Muzaffarnagar
4. Meerut
5. Haldwani
6. Pauri-Garhwal, or NOIDA if you will be in the NCR in February

Reorder this by where you could stay the night before. If your family is in Kumaon, Haldwani or Almora may deserve a higher place. If you are from the Garhwal hills, Pauri-Garhwal is the listed name for that area.

Shimla-Solan and Mohali-Chandigarh are also in your zone, so a student who studies in the tricity can still combine them with Dehradun. The Chandigarh page covers that end of the zone.

If you study in Delhi or Noida and plan to come home for the exam, or the other way round, watch this. The NCR is split across two zones, and the form will not let you mix them.

City on the list	Zone
Dehradun, Roorkee, Haldwani, Almora, Pauri-Garhwal	IIT Roorkee
NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad	IIT Roorkee
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater NOIDA, Mathura	IIT Delhi
Bareilly, Lucknow, Agra and the rest of Uttar Pradesh	IIT Kanpur

So Dehradun with NOIDA works, and Dehradun with Greater NOIDA does not, even though the names look alike. Dehradun with New Delhi does not work either. If you will be in a Delhi hostel in February, build an IIT Delhi-zone list instead; the Delhi page explains it.

One more name to watch: the "Srinagar" on the list is in Jammu and Kashmir (IIT Delhi zone), not Srinagar in Garhwal.

Exam-city questions go to the zone's coordinating institute, IIT Roorkee: Roorkee 247 667, gate@iitr.ac.in, 01332-284531. Write from your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

For the application portal or the papers, contact IIT Madras, the organising institute: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Registration has closed; the special window ended on 16 October 2026. The data correction window is still TBA on the official dates page, so do not count on changing cities until GATE announces it. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, and results on 19 March 2027.

The admit card, whose date is still TBA, gives your exact centre and reporting time. Find the centre on a map the day it comes out and plan the route from where you will sleep. A Dehradun centre need not be close to your locality.

If you are coming in from outside, the district administration's site lists Dehradun Railway Station 1 to 2 km from the city centre, the Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT) near Clement Town, and Jolly Grant Airport about 20 km away. If you are allotted Roorkee, IIT Roorkee's own travel page notes that the New Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi and Jan Shatabdi trains run via Roorkee. For Haldwani, Almora or Pauri-Garhwal, go the day before.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the second paper's centre may differ, though in the same city. Check both.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you gave in the form, and whatever else the admit card lists. Its rules are final.

IIT Roorkee is the obvious one, in Roorkee itself. The GATEiit page sets out its GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

In the state, NIT Uttarakhand is at Srinagar, Pauri (Garhwal). Its GATEiit page sets out its CCMT route for DA and CSE candidates.

In the same zone, GATEiit pages for IIT Mandi, IIT Ropar, PEC Chandigarh and NIT Jalandhar explain their routes. IIT Delhi has a page too. All are on /institutes.

Your exam city plays no part in admission. Writing GATE in Roorkee does not help at IIT Roorkee.

GATEiit is an online site. It has no centre or office in Dehradun or anywhere else, and it is free.

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

Work through past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan, and /guides has more. All six exam days are Saturdays or Sundays, so take full mocks on weekend mornings.

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