GATE 2027 in Jalandhar: The Jalandhar-Phagwara Exam City and IIT Roorkee Zone

Search the official exam-city page for "Jalandhar" and you will find it only as Jalandhar-Phagwara, under Punjab. That is a single option on the form. You cannot pick Jalandhar alone or Phagwara alone, and the combined name tells you the allotted centre could be in either town. The admit card will give the exact address.

So if you are in a Jalandhar hostel, do not assume the centre will be a short auto ride away. Budget for the trip to Phagwara as well. Students from the district's other tehsils, which the district administration lists as Nakodar, Phillaur and Shahkot besides Jalandhar-I and Jalandhar-II, also choose this entry, since none of those towns is listed separately. Hoshiarpur and Kapurthala have no entry of their own either.

The general rules apply: you pick six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative, and GATE may add or remove a city or allot one outside your choices. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

The zone is coordinated by IIT Roorkee and is generous for a Jalandhar student. On the official list it holds:

State	Exam cities
Punjab	Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Pathankot, Patiala
Himachal Pradesh	Bilaspur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Kullu, Mandi, Palampur, Shimla-Solan, Una
Haryana	Ambala

Uttarakhand and five Uttar Pradesh cities are in it too, but from here they matter only if you will be in Dehradun or Roorkee in February. The Dehradun page covers that end.

One small thing: the Bilaspur in this zone is the Himachal one. A Bilaspur under Chhattisgarh sits in the IIT Kharagpur zone, so check the state when you select it.

A list that keeps you within easy reach of home:

1. Jalandhar-Phagwara
2. Ludhiana
3. Amritsar
4. Una or Kangra, if Himachal is closer for you
5. Pathankot
6. Mohali-Chandigarh

Swap the order around wherever you have family or a friend's room for the night before. A back-up only helps if you can actually get there on a winter morning. If you study in the tricity and go home to Jalandhar, the Chandigarh page explains the Mohali-Chandigarh listing from that side.

These look reachable from Jalandhar but sit in the IIT Delhi zone, so none of them can share a form with Jalandhar-Phagwara:

• Jammu - Samba and Srinagar, in Jammu and Kashmir
• New Delhi, Gurugram and Faridabad
• Hanumangarh and Bikaner, in Rajasthan

Pathankot against Jammu - Samba is the one that catches people, especially students from Jammu who study at a Jalandhar college. You have to choose. Either an IIT Roorkee-zone list with Pathankot and the Punjab cities, or an IIT Delhi-zone list with Jammu - Samba. The Jammu page shows what the second option looks like, and the Delhi page covers NCR.

Exam-city questions from Jalandhar go to the IIT Roorkee zone office, as the official page lists it:

• IIT Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667: gate@iitr.ac.in, 01332-284531

Write from your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID. For the portal or the papers, the organising institute is IIT Madras (helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200). Registration closed with the special window on 16 October 2026, and the important dates page still shows the data correction window as TBA.

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA; it will name the centre and reporting time. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

For travel, the district's how-to-reach page describes Jalandhar City railway station as a major stop on the Amritsar to Delhi line, and puts the domestic airport at Adampur about 23 km from that station. It also lists bus services from several state roadways. If you are allotted Amritsar, Pathankot or a Himachal city, reach the day before.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID from your application, and anything else the admit card asks for. If you write DA and CS together, the two-paper page says the second centre may differ but will be in the same city.

In the city itself, GATEiit has a page for NIT Jalandhar, Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144008. Also in Punjab is IIT Ropar, at Rupnagar, and in Chandigarh, PEC Chandigarh. Across the Himachal border, see NIT Hamirpur and IIT Mandi. Each page explains the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. IIT Roorkee, our zone office, has a page as well, and the full list is on /institutes.

The exam city does not affect admission. Writing in Jalandhar-Phagwara gives no edge at NIT Jalandhar.

GATEiit works online only and has no centre, office or classroom in Jalandhar or anywhere else. Everything is free.

Open your paper page first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. The syllabus and the WhatsApp group link are there. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper combination in GATE 2027.

Then work through /pyq year by year and /practice by topic. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan, and /guides has more. Every session falls on a weekend, so take your mocks on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The GATE 2027 page and the city overview have the rest.