GATE 2027 in Hamirpur, Himachal: Exam City, IIT Roorkee Zone and Institutes

The official exam-city page lists eight Himachal names: Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla-Solan and Una. All eight are in the IIT Roorkee zone.

Two name clashes are worth settling before you fill anything in. The list's "Hamirpur" is the Himachal one. Uttar Pradesh has its own Hamirpur district, but it is not an exam city, so the form cannot confuse the two. "Bilaspur", on the other hand, appears twice: once under Himachal Pradesh in the IIT Roorkee zone, and once under Chhattisgarh in the IIT Kharagpur zone. Make sure the Bilaspur you pick sits under Himachal Pradesh.

The rule itself: you choose six cities, all six from the same zone. The list is tentative, GATE can add or remove a city, and it may allot you a city outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Hamirpur is a rare case where the zone map works in your favour. The district administration says the district shares its borders with Bilaspur, Mandi, Kangra and Una districts. Each of those has an exam-city entry, and every one is IIT Roorkee zone. So a list built entirely from places around you is a valid list.

One order for a student who lives in Hamirpur:

1. Hamirpur
2. Una
3. Kangra
4. Bilaspur
5. Mandi
6. Palampur

Shimla-Solan and Kullu are also open. If you study in the plains, Mohali-Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar-Phagwara and Ambala are in the same zone, so you can swap one or two hill cities for your college city. Sort the six by where you could spend the night before the paper.

The trap is to the north and the south-east. Jammu - Samba is IIT Delhi zone. So are New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad and Greater NOIDA.

Cities on the list	Zone
Hamirpur, Una, Kangra, Bilaspur, Mandi, Palampur, Kullu, Shimla-Solan	IIT Roorkee
Mohali-Chandigarh, Pathankot, Amritsar, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda	IIT Roorkee
Ambala, Dehradun, Roorkee, NOIDA, Ghaziabad, Meerut	IIT Roorkee
Jammu - Samba, Srinagar, Leh	IIT Delhi
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Greater NOIDA	IIT Delhi

A student from Hamirpur who studies in Jammu or Delhi has to choose: a Himachal-and-Punjab list, or a list around the college. You cannot mix them. Note the NOIDA split: NOIDA is IIT Roorkee zone, Greater NOIDA is IIT Delhi zone. The Jammu and Delhi pages cover the other side.

Hamirpur moves by road. The district's how-to-reach page says the town has no direct train service. The nearest broad-gauge stations are Una, about 80 km away, and Amb, about 70 km, with Jawalamukhi Road on the narrow-gauge line about 58 km out. The district has no airport; Gaggal near Dharamshala, in Kangra, is about 83 km away. HRTC buses and private buses and taxis cover the rest.

That matters if you are coming home from college for the exam. NIT Hamirpur's connectivity page puts the town about 450 km from Delhi and 200 km from Chandigarh. Reach Hamirpur the day before, find your centre, and do not plan on a dawn bus.

The district notes that January is its coldest month and that winter runs from December to February, so dress for a cold exam hall and an early start.

Writing DA and CS together? The two-paper rules say the second paper's centre may differ from the first but stays in the same city. Check both entries on your admit card, and carry the printed card, the original photo ID you gave in the form, and whatever else the card asks for.

Your coordinating institute is IIT Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667: gate@iitr.ac.in, phone 01332-284531. Write from your registered email and include 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, and the paid correction window is still TBA on the important dates page. City allotment is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA. Results are on 19 March 2027.

Two Himachal institutes have GATEiit pages:

• NIT Hamirpur, at Anu, about 4 km from the main Hamirpur bus stand on the Hamirpur-Tauni Devi road.
• IIT Mandi, in the Kamand valley, about 14 km from Mandi.

Each page explains the institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. Close by in Punjab and Chandigarh, IIT Ropar, PEC Chandigarh and NIT Jalandhar have pages, and so does IIT Roorkee. The rest are on /institutes.

Where you write GATE has no bearing on where you can apply. A Hamirpur exam city gives no advantage at NIT Hamirpur.

GATEiit is free and online only. It has no office or centre in Hamirpur, or in any other town.

Start on your paper's page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each carries the syllabus and the link to its WhatsApp group.

Then work through past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a week-by-week plan, and /guides has more. Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so sit full mocks on weekend mornings. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview cover everything else, and the Chandigarh and Jalandhar pages help if you study in the plains.