GATE 2027 in Gurugram: Exam City, IIT Delhi Zone and the NCR Split

The official exam-city page has two Haryana entries in the zone coordinated by IIT Delhi: Faridabad and Gurugram. The spelling GATE uses is Gurugram, so do not go looking for Gurgaon on the form.

The entry covers more than the city you know from the metro and the expressway. The district administration lists five sub-divisions (Gurugram, Sohna, Badshahpur, Pataudi and Manesar) and five tehsils (Gurgaon, Sohna, Pataudi, Farrukh Nagar and Manesar). None of these towns has a GATE entry of its own. If you live in Manesar, Sohna or Pataudi, Gurugram is the name you tick, and the admit card tells you which centre you actually got.

Three rules apply to everyone. You choose six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative, and GATE may add or drop a city or allot one outside your choices. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

The NCR Planning Board puts Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Rewari, Jhajjar, Sonepat, Palwal and seven more Haryana districts inside NCR. GATE ignores that boundary. Its zones are drawn city by city, and the NCR names on the list fall into two of them:

Exam city	State	GATE zone
Gurugram	Haryana	IIT Delhi
Faridabad	Haryana	IIT Delhi
New Delhi	Delhi	IIT Delhi
Greater NOIDA	Uttar Pradesh	IIT Delhi
NOIDA	Uttar Pradesh	IIT Roorkee
Ghaziabad	Uttar Pradesh	IIT Roorkee
Meerut	Uttar Pradesh	IIT Roorkee

So a form reading Gurugram, New Delhi, NOIDA is invalid. If you work in Gurugram but live in Noida or Ghaziabad, or the other way round, you have to pick one side. Greater NOIDA is the one Uttar Pradesh name near Delhi that sits with Gurugram.

Haryana itself is split. Ambala is the only other Haryana entry, and it belongs to the IIT Roorkee zone with Punjab, Himachal and Uttarakhand. If your family is up in the Ambala or Kurukshetra area and you thought of writing from home, that list cannot include Gurugram.

Rewari, Jhajjar and Nuh have no exam city at all. Candidates from those districts choose from the listed names, and Gurugram is one of the IIT Delhi zone options.

Everything you would sensibly add sits in the IIT Delhi zone, which keeps the choice simple. One order for someone living in the city:

1. Gurugram
2. New Delhi
3. Faridabad
4. Greater NOIDA
5. Jaipur
6. Mathura, Sikar or Ajmer

The first four are within NCR. Jaipur is a reasonable fifth: the district's own description notes Gurugram's link to the broad gauge rail link to Jaipur, and the Jaipur page covers that end of the zone. The other Rajasthan names (Kota, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Hanumangarh) and Indore, Ujjain, Jammu - Samba, Srinagar and Leh are also IIT Delhi zone, but they only make sense if you will be living near them in February.

Registration has closed, so if you registered, your six are already on the form. The application data correction window (on candidate request, with a fee) is listed as TBA on the dates page. Until it opens, treat the order you submitted as final.

GATE 2027 runs on Saturdays and Sundays: 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February 2027. The city allotment notification comes on 4 January 2027. The admit card, whose date is still TBA, gives the centre address and reporting time.

Gurugram has grown fast, and a centre with a Gurugram address could be at the other end of the district from you. The district's travel page mentions NH-48 through the district, Haryana Roadways and other buses, and Gurugram railway station; the district profile adds that the city is within commuting distance of Delhi by expressway and Delhi Metro. Once you have the address, work out the route from where you will sleep the night before and leave a margin for the unexpected. If GATE allots you New Delhi or Greater NOIDA, plan that trip the same way.

Writing DA and CS both? The two-paper page says the second paper's centre may differ from the first, though in the same city.

Carry the printed admit card and the original photo ID you entered in the application. Follow the admit card for anything else.

Gurugram's zone office is IIT Delhi:

• IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi– 110 016: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in, 011-26591749

Application questions go to IIT Madras, the organising institute, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Write from the email ID you registered with and quote your enrolment ID. IIT Roorkee (gate@iitr.ac.in) handles NOIDA, Ghaziabad and Ambala, not Gurugram.

No institute page covers Gurugram itself, but several Delhi campuses are close, and each GATEiit page explains its GATE routes for DA and CS candidates:

• NSUT, Dwarka, New Delhi. The district says Gurugram is about 10 km from the Dwarka sub-city.
• IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi
• JNU, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi
• IIIT-Delhi, Okhla, New Delhi
• DTU, Bawana Road, Delhi
• NIT Delhi, GT Karnal Road, Delhi

Within Haryana, NIT Kurukshetra is the one institute with a page. The full set is on /institutes, and the Delhi page covers the capital's side of NCR.

Where you write GATE has no bearing on where you are admitted. Choose the exam city for the morning of the paper and the institute for its programmes.

The district describes itself as an IT and BPO hub. If you are preparing alongside a full-time job there, weekends matter, and all six GATE days fall on weekends. Use Saturday and Sunday mornings for timed mocks so the exam slot feels familiar.

GATEiit is free and online only. It has no centre or office in Gurugram or anywhere else. Pick your paper first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Both pages carry the syllabus and link the WhatsApp group for doubts. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper pair.

Then work through solved previous papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 plan and the GATE CSE 2027 plan break the syllabus into weeks; the rest of the guides fill gaps. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview carry the national picture.