GATE 2027 in Kharagpur-Midnapur: Exam City, Zone Rules and Institutes

The official GATE 2027 exam-city list has no separate "Kharagpur" or "Midnapur". It prints one name, Kharagpur-Midnapur, among the eight West Bengal cities of the IIT Kharagpur zone. If you want to write here, that is the option you tick.

Both towns sit in Paschim Medinipur district. The district's own site lists three subdivisions, Medinipur Sadar, Kharagpur and Ghatal, with Medinipur municipality in the first and Kharagpur municipality in the second. The district spells it Medinipur; the GATE list spells it Midnapur. They are the same place.

What the list does not tell you is which of the two towns your centre will be in. Do not assume a centre near the IIT campus or near Midnapur town. The admit card names the exact centre, and until then you only know the city entry.

The usual rules hold. You choose six cities, all from one zone. The list is tentative, GATE may add or drop a city, and it may allot you one that is not among your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Here the zone's coordinating institute is in your own town. Exam-city questions go to IIT Kharagpur, listed as Kharagpur 721 302, gateonline@adm.iitkgp.ac.in, 03222-282091 and 03222-282095. Write from your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

Questions about the portal, fees or the papers go to IIT Madras, which organises GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Having the zone office next door does not change how allotment works. You get no priority for a local centre and no say in which building you are sent to.

The IIT Kharagpur zone is large. In West Bengal it has Bankura, Berhampore, Hooghly, Howrah, Kharagpur-Midnapur, Kolaghat, Kolkata and Suri. It also covers all eight Odisha cities, Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, Raipur, Bhilai-Durg and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, and nine Andhra Pradesh cities.

From here the natural direction is east, towards Kolkata. IIT Kharagpur's directions page puts the town about 120 km west of Kolkata and about two hours by train from Howrah railway station. A list for a student living in Kharagpur or Midnapur might run:

1. Kharagpur-Midnapur
2. Kolaghat
3. Howrah
4. Kolkata
5. Hooghly
6. Bankura, or Jamshedpur or Balasore-Bhadrak if you have family there

If your college is in Kolkata and you will be living there in February, put Kolkata or Howrah first and keep Kharagpur-Midnapur lower down. Order matters, so lead with the city you will actually be in. For the Kolkata side, the Howrah and Kolkata pages go into more detail.

West Bengal is split between two zones, and this is where a Kharagpur student can go wrong.

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

None of the IIT Guwahati names can go on a form that has Kharagpur-Midnapur. Durgapur and Kalyani are the ones people reach for, often because a friend or relative lives there. The same zone line puts Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City and the Bihar cities out of reach.

If your home is in Durgapur or Kalyani and you will be there for the exam weeks, build a full IIT Guwahati-zone list instead. The Durgapur and Kalyani pages cover that side, and the Patna and Dhanbad pages cover Bihar and the Jharkhand coal belt. You cannot mix the two lists.

Registration has closed. These are the dates that still matter, as the official dates page shows them:

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

When the admit card arrives, look up the centre that evening. A centre at the far end of Midnapur is a different trip from one in Kharagpur, so plan the route from wherever you will sleep.

If you are allotted Howrah or Kolkata, go the day before. The Paschim Medinipur district site puts the district about 128 km from Kolkata by rail, roughly two and a half hours by train from Howrah, and about three hours by road.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the official page notes that your second paper's centre may differ, though in the same city. Check both entries.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form, and whatever else the admit card lists. Its instructions are final.

IIT Kharagpur is the obvious one. Its directions page says the campus is about 5 km from Kharagpur railway station. The GATEiit page sets out its GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Closer to Kolkata, IIEST Shibpur in Howrah has a page too. In the other zone, so do NIT Durgapur and IIIT Kalyani, and across the Odisha border IIT Bhubaneswar. The full list is on /institutes.

The exam city and admission are separate. Writing GATE in Kharagpur-Midnapur gives you nothing extra at IIT Kharagpur, and a candidate who writes in Durgapur can apply there just the same.

GATEiit is a free online site with no centre in Kharagpur, Midnapur or anywhere else.

Start with your paper. GATE DA covers Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and GATE CSE covers Computer Science and Information Technology. Each page has the syllabus and the link to that paper's WhatsApp group.

Use /pyq for past papers and /practice for topic-wise sets. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a week-by-week plan, and /guides has the rest. All six exam days fall on Saturdays and Sundays, so sit your full mocks on weekend mornings.

For the wider picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.