GATE 2027 in Ludhiana: Exam City, IIT Roorkee Zone and Nearby Institutes

The official exam-city page lists seven Punjab entries: Amritsar, Bathinda, Jalandhar-Phagwara, Ludhiana, Mohali-Chandigarh, Pathankot and Patiala. All are IIT Roorkee zone. Ludhiana is a plain entry of its own, unlike its neighbour, which appears only as the combined Jalandhar-Phagwara.

The district administration lists eight tehsils: Ludhiana East, Ludhiana West, Ludhiana Central, Jagraon, Samrala, Khanna, Payal and Raikot. Khanna, Jagraon and the rest have no GATE entry, so students from those towns also choose Ludhiana or a nearby listed city. The admit card will give the exact centre.

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

With seven Punjab entries in one zone, back-ups are easy to find. One order for a student living in the city:

1. Ludhiana
2. Jalandhar-Phagwara
3. Mohali-Chandigarh
4. Patiala
5. Amritsar
6. Bathinda

If you study in Himachal, Una, Hamirpur and the other Himachal entries are in the same zone. Ambala, the only Haryana city in this zone, is another option for students coming from that side. Choose cities where you can reach the centre on a cold February morning, and give some thought to where you could stay the night before.

For more on the neighbours, see the Jalandhar and Chandigarh pages, and the Una page for the Himachal border.

These are the names a Ludhiana student is most likely to reach for by mistake:

On the list	Zone	Why it matters here
Jammu - Samba	IIT Delhi	Students from Jammu at Punjab colleges
New Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad	IIT Delhi	Students who study or work in NCR
Hanumangarh	IIT Delhi	A Rajasthan city in the IIT Delhi zone
Ambala	IIT Roorkee	The one Haryana city you can add

None of the IIT Delhi names can sit beside Ludhiana. If your college is in Delhi or Jammu, you choose one zone or the other. The Delhi and Jammu pages show that side.

Haryana cities such as Karnal or Panipat do not appear on the list at all, so they cannot be picked in either zone.

The district's how-to-reach page puts Ludhiana railway station on the main Delhi-Amritsar route, as a junction with lines to Jalandhar, Ferozepur, Dhuri and Delhi, and notes that the Ludhiana-Chandigarh rail line opened in 2013. By road, NH 44, NH 5 and SH 11 serve the city, with Punjab Roadways and private buses. Buses also run from Ludhiana to Una in Himachal through Hoshiarpur, according to the Una district.

Inside the city, give yourself time. The district's about page says the city has the highest per capita vehicles in India and that traffic congestion is acute. Find your centre a day early and leave a margin on the morning.

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

Exam-city questions go to IIT Roorkee, Roorkee 247 667: gate@iitr.ac.in, 01332-284531. Write from your registered email with your enrolment ID.

Application or paper questions go to the organising institute, IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

According to the important dates page, the city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

Ludhiana has no institute with a GATEiit page inside the city, but three are a short way off:

• NIT Jalandhar, in Jalandhar.
• IIT Ropar, at Rupnagar.
• PEC Chandigarh, in Chandigarh.

Across the Himachal border are IIIT Una, NIT Hamirpur and IIT Mandi. Each GATEiit page explains its institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates, and /institutes has the full list.

Your exam city plays no part in admissions. Sitting GATE in Ludhiana changes nothing at these institutes.

GATEiit is online and free, with no office or classroom in Ludhiana or any other city.

Start with your paper page: 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.

Use /pyq for past papers and /practice for topic sets. 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 city overview cover the rest.