GATE 2027 in Nashik: IIT Bombay Zone, Back-up Cities and Institutes

The official exam-city page lists "Nashik" once, under Maharashtra, in the zone coordinated by IIT Bombay. The list has no Nashik Road or Malegaon entry. You pick the city and GATE picks the centre; the admit card gives the address.

The district is big. The Nashik district administration lists fifteen talukas, from Igatpuri, Trimbakeshwar and Surgana in the hills to Malegaon, Nandgaon and Yeola on the eastern side. None of them has its own exam-city name. If you live in Malegaon, Satana or Manmad, your real choice is between Nashik and a neighbouring district's entry, whichever you can reach more easily on a weekend morning.

The list is tentative. GATE may add or remove a city, and may allot one outside your six options. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

All six choices have to come from one zone. For a Nashik student the useful fact is that almost every district touching Nashik has an exam city of its own, and all of them sit in the IIT Bombay zone.

The district site describes Nashik as bounded by Dhule to the north, Jalgaon to the east, Aurangabad (now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar) to the south-east, Ahmednagar to the south and Thane to the south-west. On the GATE list those become:

Direction from Nashik	Exam-city name on the list	Zone
North	Dhule	IIT Bombay
East	Jalgaon	IIT Bombay
South-east	Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad)	IIT Bombay
South	Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar)	IIT Bombay
South-west	Mumbai - Thane	IIT Bombay

The Gujarat districts on the western border, Valsad, Navsari and the Dangs, have no entry of their own. Gujarat's cities, Surat - Bardoli and Vadodara among them, are IIT Bombay zone too, so a family across that border causes no zone problem.

A list that works for most of us: Nashik, Dhule, Ahilyanagar (Ahmednagar), Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (Aurangabad), Mumbai - Thane, and then Pune, Jalgaon or Vasai - Palghar depending on where you have a place to stay. Put first the city you would rather sit in, because allotment can go to any of the six.

The district site says trains from Nashik Road connect to Bhopal and Hyderabad, and the Mumbai-Agra national highway passes through Nashik towards Madhya Pradesh. Being easy to reach does not put a city in your zone. These names are on the list, but each is in a different zone from Nashik:

City	Zone on the official list
Indore, Ujjain	IIT Delhi
Bhopal	IIT Kanpur
Hyderabad	IISc
Nizamabad	IIT Madras

If you are studying in Nashik but your home is in Indore, decide where you will be in February before you fill the form. Choosing Indore takes the whole form into the IIT Delhi zone, and Nashik drops off it. The Indore page and Bhopal page cover those zones.

IIT Madras organises GATE 2027, but exam-city matters for Nashik go to the IIT Bombay zone office:

• IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai – 400 076: gateoffice@iitb.ac.in, 022-25767068, 022-25767022

Write from your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID. For the application itself, the IIT Madras helpdesk is helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

The important dates page now shows 30 November 2026 as the close of the scrutiny-defect rectification window, after two extensions. The fee-based data correction window is still TBA. Until it opens, treat your city order as fixed.

Papers are on 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February 2027, all weekends. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA, and the admit card fixes your centre and reporting time.

The district site describes Nashik's cool season, November to February, as warm in the day with nights averaging around 10 °C and very dry air. An early reporting time means a cold start, so dress for it and keep water with you.

Centres can be anywhere in the city or on its edges. The district site puts Nashik Road railway station about 11 km from the city centre and Ojhar airport about 24 km, so if you are coming in from a taluka or from outside, do not assume the station is next to your centre. Find the centre the day the admit card appears.

If GATE allots you Dhule, Mumbai - Thane or another back-up, travel the evening before. Writing DA and CS both? The two-paper page says the second paper's centre may differ, though in the same city. Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID entered in your application, and anything else the admit card lists.

No institute with a GATEiit page is in Nashik itself. The nearest ones are in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur:

• IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai
• IIIT Pune, Talegaon, Pune
• DIAT Pune, Girinagar, Pune
• VNIT Nagpur, South Ambazari Road, Nagpur

Each page sets out that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. The full set is on /institutes. Your exam city has no bearing on where you are admitted, so pick the city for an easy morning and the institutes for the programme.

GATEiit is an online site. It has no centre or office in Nashik, and everything on it is free to use from home, a college library or a hostel room.

Start with the paper: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each page has the syllabus and a link to the WhatsApp group for doubts. Then work through previous papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice, with the GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide for a plan.

Sit at least a few full mocks at the time of day your paper falls. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview cover the national picture, and the Mumbai and Pune pages explain your nearest big back-ups.