GATE 2027 in Meerut: Exam City, IIT Roorkee Zone and the NCR Split

The Meerut district administration describes the city as the second largest in the National Capital Region, 70 km north-east of New Delhi. For GATE, though, Meerut does not sit with Delhi. The official exam-city list files it under Uttar Pradesh in the IIT Roorkee zone.

Every candidate picks six cities, and all six must come from one zone. The IIT Roorkee zone covers five western UP cities (Ghaziabad, Meerut, Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar and NOIDA), all of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, Mohali-Chandigarh, and Ambala in Haryana.

That gives a Meerut student a good spread. You have your own city, two NCR cities in Ghaziabad and NOIDA, and Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee and Moradabad beyond them.

If you study or work in Delhi or NOIDA, the NCR cities can look interchangeable. On the GATE list they are not.

Exam city	Zone	With Meerut?
Ghaziabad, NOIDA	IIT Roorkee	Yes
Muzaffarnagar, Moradabad	IIT Roorkee	Yes
Greater NOIDA, New Delhi	IIT Delhi	No
Gurugram, Faridabad, Mathura	IIT Delhi	No
Agra, Aligarh, Bareilly	IIT Kanpur	No

NOIDA and Greater NOIDA are separate names in separate zones. Only NOIDA can share your form. Uttar Pradesh as a whole is split across three zones: five cities in IIT Roorkee, two in IIT Delhi and nine in IIT Kanpur.

If you will be living in a Delhi hostel in February and want New Delhi as your first choice, you must drop Meerut and build a full IIT Delhi zone list instead. The Delhi page covers that list. You cannot have both.

The district has three tehsils, Meerut, Mawana and Sardhana, according to its administration. Only Meerut is on the GATE list, so students from Mawana, Hastinapur or Sardhana write under the Meerut name or a neighbouring one. Baghpat, Hapur and Bulandshahr are not exam cities.

A workable order for a Meerut student:

1. Meerut
2. Ghaziabad
3. NOIDA
4. Muzaffarnagar
5. Roorkee
6. Moradabad or Dehradun

Rank by where you can sleep the night before, not by the map. If you are in a NOIDA hostel, put NOIDA first and Meerut second. If your family is in Dehradun or Haldwani, move that up. The list is tentative, GATE may add or drop cities, and it may allot a city outside your six, so do not fill a slot with a place you could not reach.

The Roorkee and Dehradun pages describe the same zone from further north.

Exam-city questions for this zone go to its coordinating institute, listed on the GATE 2027 site as:

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

Use your registered email and put your enrolment ID in the subject. The IIT Delhi office handles New Delhi and Greater NOIDA, not Meerut, so do not write there. Questions about the application portal or the papers go to IIT Madras, which organises GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Registration closed in October 2026. If GATE flagged a defect in your application, the dates page gives 30 November 2026 as the last day to fix it without a fee. The paid correction window is TBA.

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card, with the centre address and reporting time, has no release date yet. All six exam days fall on Saturdays and Sundays in February, and results are due on 19 March 2027. DA and CS can be taken together in GATE 2027; if you do, check both admit cards because the centres may differ.

The district's travel page says Meerut is on the Delhi-Dehradun rail line, with direct trains to Ghaziabad, Delhi, Lucknow, Agra and Jaipur, and that UPSRTC buses connect it with Delhi, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Kanpur and other cities. IIT Roorkee's own page puts Roorkee on NH-58 about 170 km north of Delhi. If you are allotted Muzaffarnagar, Roorkee or Dehradun, travel the day before.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the application and anything else the admit card asks for. The admit card's instructions come first.

GATEiit has no institute page for a campus in Meerut. The ones a DA or CSE aspirant here usually looks at are in Roorkee and Delhi:

• IIT Roorkee, in Roorkee, also your zone office
• IIT Delhi, at Hauz Khas, New Delhi
• IIIT Delhi, DTU, NSUT and NIT Delhi, all in Delhi

Each page sets out that institute's GATE routes. NIT Uttarakhand and the rest are on /institutes.

Your exam zone has no bearing on admission. Writing the paper in Meerut does not count against you at IIT Delhi, and it gives no edge at IIT Roorkee.

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

Open your paper page first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each carries the syllabus and a link to the paper's WhatsApp group. Past papers are on /pyq and topic sets on /practice.

For a full plan, use the GATE DA 2027 guide or the GATE CSE 2027 guide, with more on /guides. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview cover the national picture, and the Ghaziabad and Noida pages look at the NCR side of this zone.