GATE 2027 in Kalyani: IIT Guwahati Zone, Not Kolkata's, and Institutes

Most people in Kalyani think of Kolkata as the big city next door, and assume GATE treats the two the same way. It does not. The GATE 2027 exam-city list puts West Bengal's thirteen cities into two zones:

Zone (coordinating institute)	West Bengal exam cities
IIT Guwahati	Asansol, Burdwan, Durgapur, Kalyani, Siliguri
IIT Kharagpur	Bankura, Berhampore, Hooghly, Howrah, Kharagpur-Midnapur, Kolaghat, Kolkata, Suri

Kalyani appears once, as "Kalyani". Kolkata, Howrah and Hooghly, the exam cities a Kalyani student most often has links with, are all on the other side of the split. So is Berhampore.

The rule on the official page is short: pick six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE may add or remove a city, and can allot one outside your six. The exam is held only in India.

Kalyani's zone partners in south Bengal are Burdwan, Durgapur and Asansol, so a Kalyani list reaches further from home than a Kolkata list would. A version to start from:

1. Kalyani
2. Burdwan
3. Durgapur
4. Asansol
5. Dhanbad
6. Bokaro Steel City

Dhanbad and Bokaro Steel City are in Jharkhand but in the IIT Guwahati zone, so they are legal choices here. Siliguri is the fifth Bengal city in the zone; keep it if your family lives in north Bengal. Patna and the other Bihar cities are in this zone too.

What you cannot do is fill the bottom of the list with Kolkata or Howrah as a safe nearby option. The form will hold them only if you drop Kalyani and switch to an IIT Kharagpur list.

Whatever you choose, putting Kalyani first does not guarantee it. Treat every city on the list as one you might really be sent to.

Some students here have families in Kolkata or Howrah, and some Kolkata students have families in Kalyani. One form cannot mix the two zones, so decide where you will be on the exam weekends of 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February.

• Staying in Kalyani: an IIT Guwahati list starting with Kalyani, as above.
• At home in Kolkata, Howrah or Hooghly: an IIT Kharagpur list. The Kolkata page lays that one out.

If home is Durgapur or Asansol, you are already in Kalyani's zone and the choice is easy. The Durgapur page covers that side of the state.

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

Exam-city questions for Kalyani go to IIT Guwahati, not to IIT Kharagpur, which handles Kolkata. The contact as listed: IIT Guwahati, Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Use your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

Portal, fee and paper questions go to IIT Madras, the organising institute for GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

The dates on the official page: scrutiny defects in the form can be fixed without a fee until 30 November 2026. The paid data correction window is TBA. Cities are allotted on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA. The six exam days are 6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 February 2027, and results come on 19 March 2027.

Kalyani is in Nadia district; the district administration describes Nadia as bordered by North 24 Parganas to the south and Hooghly and Bardhaman to the west. Your centre could be anywhere in town, or in Burdwan or Durgapur if you are allotted a back-up, so look it up on a map as soon as the admit card names it. If the allotted city is not Kalyani, travel the day before.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the second paper may be at a different centre in the same city. Read both lines of the admit card.

Bring the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and anything else the admit card asks for. The admit card's instructions on what may be carried in are final.

IIIT Kalyani is in the town. Its contact page gives the address as Webel IT Park, near Buddha Park, Kalyani 741 235, Nadia. The GATEiit page explains which GATE routes it has, for DA and CS candidates alike, so read it before you assume anything.

Elsewhere in West Bengal, NIT Durgapur and IIT Kharagpur have GATEiit pages. Across the border, so does IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. The full list is on /institutes.

Remember the exam city and admission are separate things. Writing GATE in Kalyani gives you nothing extra at IIIT Kalyani, and writing it in Kolkata costs you nothing there.

GATEiit is free and online. It has no centre in Kalyani or in any other city.

Go to your paper's page first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE. Each has the syllabus and the link to that paper's WhatsApp group. Then use /pyq for past papers and /practice for topic-wise sets. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide give a plan to follow, and /guides has more.

Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so keep weekend mornings for full mocks. For other cities, see the exam-city overview and GATE 2027.