GATE 2027 in Imphal: Exam Cities, Thoubal, Zone Rules and Institutes

Under Manipur, the official exam-city list has two entries, "Imphal" and "Thoubal". They are separate choices. Picking Imphal does not cover Thoubal, and the reverse is also true, so if you would sit in either, list both.

They are close. The Thoubal district page says Imphal West and Imphal East districts bound it on the north, and that Thoubal is the district headquarters. Imphal city, the state capital, is the main centre of Imphal West district, according to its district administration.

The list does not split Imphal into West and East, and it does not say where in either city the centres will be. Your admit card will.

The rules for the form:

• You choose six cities, all from one zone.
• The list is tentative; GATE may add or drop a city.
• GATE may allot a city outside your six if it must.
• GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Both Manipur entries sit in the IIT Guwahati zone, which also holds every other north-eastern state, all five Assam cities, Bihar, Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City, and five West Bengal cities. You will not run short of options.

An order many Imphal students could start from:

1. Imphal
2. Thoubal
3. Silchar
4. Dimapur-Kohima
5. Aizawl
6. Guwahati

Change the last four to match where you have relatives or a hostel friend. Shillong and Agartala are in the same zone too.

The Imphal West how-to-reach page lists the road links behind these choices: Imphal to Silchar through Jiribam, to Guwahati, Dimapur and Kohima by the Asian Highways, and to Aizawl via Churachandpur. These are long road trips, so a back-up city should be one you could reach the day before.

Ranking Imphal first does not guarantee it. Thoubal is the nearest other name on the list, which is the best reason to put it second.

The trap is for students who study in Imphal but whose families live outside the region, or the other way round.

City	Zone	With Imphal on one form?
Thoubal, Silchar, Aizawl, Dimapur-Kohima, Shillong, Agartala, Guwahati	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Siliguri, Kalyani, Durgapur, Asansol, Burdwan	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Purnea, Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Kolkata, Howrah and the rest of south Bengal	IIT Kharagpur	No
Bhubaneswar, Ranchi	IIT Kharagpur	No

If you will be in Kolkata in February, build an IIT Kharagpur list using the Kolkata page, with no Manipur cities on it. If you study elsewhere in the north-east, the Silchar and Guwahati pages work through the same zone.

Registration has closed. Changing cities now depends on the data correction window, still TBA on the dates page.

For exam-city questions, the zone office is IIT Guwahati: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Use the email you registered with and give your enrolment ID.

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

Step	Date
Fixing scrutiny defects (no fee)	closes 30 November 2026
Data correction window (with fee)	TBA
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Admit card	TBA
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

The official page says all dates may change, so check it again in January.

The admit card names your centre and reporting time. Look up the centre as soon as you download it. If you listed Thoubal, you may be sent there, so know how you would get there.

For students coming in from outside Manipur, the Imphal West district page puts Bir Tikendrajit International Airport, earlier called Tulihal, about 5 km from Imphal. The Thoubal district page says the same airport is about 30 km from Thoubal. Reach a day early and stay near the centre.

GATE 2027 lets you write DA and CS together. If you do, the two papers may be at different centres in the same city, so read both sessions on the admit card. Take the printed admit card, the original photo ID you gave on the form and anything else the admit card lists. Its instructions on what you may carry in are final.

NIT Manipur is in Imphal itself. Its home page gives the address as Langol, Imphal 795004, and says the institute began at the Takyelpat campus in 2010 before moving to its permanent campus at Langol. The GATEiit page explains its GATE routes for DA and CS candidates.

Further away, the GATEiit pages for IIT Guwahati, NIT Silchar, NIT Mizoram, NIT Meghalaya and NIT Agartala cover the rest of the region. The full list is on /institutes.

Your exam city plays no part in admission. Sitting GATE in Imphal does not help at NIT Manipur, and sitting it in Thoubal does not hurt.

GATEiit is online and free. It has no centre or office in Imphal or anywhere else.

Start with your paper's page, GATE DA or GATE CSE, for the syllabus and that paper's WhatsApp group. Use /pyq for past papers and /practice for topic sets. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide set out a plan, with more on /guides.

All six exam days fall on weekends, so keep Saturday and Sunday mornings for full mocks. For the national picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview; the Shillong page covers Meghalaya.