GATE 2027 in Papum Pare: Arunachal's Exam Cities, Zone Rules and Permit

Open the official exam-city list and look under Arunachal Pradesh. You will find two names: "Naharlagun" and "Papum pare", spelt exactly that way, with a small p in pare. Both belong to the IIT Guwahati zone, and Itanagar does not appear as a name of its own.

They are two separate options. Ticking Papum pare does not cover Naharlagun, and the reverse is also true. If you would be happy writing at either, list both; together they take two of your six slots.

The list gives no centre addresses for either entry, so do not assume a particular town or campus. Papum pare is the name of a district, and the district administration says its headquarters is at Yupia, about 22 km by all-weather road from Itanagar and around 4 km from Naharlagun railway station. Where your actual centre is will only be known from the admit card.

The form rules, from the same official page:

1. Six cities, all from one zone.
2. The list is tentative; GATE may add or remove a city.
3. GATE may allot a city that is not among your six.
4. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

With both Arunachal names on the form, four places remain. The IIT Guwahati zone has five Assam cities, and for most people from the capital region they are the easiest back-ups to reach.

One way to order a list:

1. Papum pare
2. Naharlagun
3. Tezpur
4. Jorhat
5. Guwahati
6. Dibrugarh

Swap the tail for wherever you have family or a friend to stay with. Silchar, Shillong, Dimapur-Kohima and Imphal are in the same zone too, as are Gangtok, Siliguri and Kalyani in the west and the Bihar and Jharkhand cities such as Patna and Dhanbad.

Putting Papum pare first states a preference. It does not reserve a seat, and GATE can still send you elsewhere in the zone, so every city on the form should be one you can actually reach.

If you will be at college in Assam, Kolkata, Delhi or Bengaluru in February, the same-zone rule decides whether a home city can stay on the form.

Where you will be	Zone	Can Papum pare or Naharlagun join it?
Tezpur, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Silchar	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Shillong, Dimapur-Kohima, Imphal, Gangtok	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Siliguri, Kalyani, Patna, Dhanbad	IIT Guwahati	Yes
Kolkata, Howrah, Bhubaneswar	IIT Kharagpur	No
New Delhi	IIT Delhi	No
Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South	IISc	No

So a student in Kolkata has to choose: either a full IIT Kharagpur zone list near college (the Kolkata page covers it) or a list built around home. Kalyani is the exception worth knowing, since it is near Kolkata but filed under IIT Guwahati. The Delhi and Bengaluru pages explain those zones.

Registration has closed. Any change to your cities now depends on the data correction window, which the official dates page still shows as TBA.

Candidates who live elsewhere and get Papum pare or Naharlagun should look at entry rules early. The Papum Pare district's How to Reach page says an Inner Line Permit can be applied for online, and that applications are also received and issued by the Government of Arunachal Pradesh's offices in Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Shillong, Tezpur, Dibrugarh, North Lakhimpur and Jorhat, and by the Deputy Commissioners' offices in the state.

The same page lists tourist ILP facilitation centres at Naharlagun railway station, Gumto railway station, and in Guwahati at Asom Paryatan Bhawan and the LGBI Airport.

That page was last updated some years ago, so confirm the current procedure with the state before you travel. If the allotment on 4 January 2027 sends you here, sort the permit out in January rather than the week of the exam.

Once the admit card is out (its date is TBA), read the centre address and work out the route from where you will stay. If the centre is in a part of the district you do not know, go and find it the day before.

The district page says winter runs from December to February and is not very cold, though thick mist can lie low in the mornings. On an early reporting time, allow for that on the road.

Writing DA and CS together? The two-paper page says the second paper's centre may differ from the first but will be in the same city. Check both addresses.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the application, and anything else the card asks for.

Step	Date
Scrutiny defects fixed without fee	until 30 November 2026
Data correction window (with fee)	TBA
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

Exam-city questions go to the zone office: IIT Guwahati, Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. For the portal or the papers, write to IIT Madras, the organising institute, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or call 044-22578200.

NIT Arunachal Pradesh gives its address on its own website as Jote, District Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh 791113. Its GATEiit page sets out the GATE routes for DA and CS candidates.

Within the region you can also look at IIT Guwahati, IIIT Guwahati, NIT Nagaland, NIT Meghalaya and NIT Silchar. Every institute page is listed at /institutes.

Your exam city has nothing to do with admissions. Writing in Papum pare gives no advantage at NIT Arunachal Pradesh.

GATEiit is a free online site. It has no centre in Arunachal or anywhere else, and nothing on it needs you to be in a big city.

Start on your paper's page, GATE DA or GATE CSE, for the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link. Work through past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a plan, and /guides has the rest.

All six exam days are Saturdays or Sundays, so weekend mornings suit full-length mocks. For the national picture, see the GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview; the Guwahati and Shillong pages show the same zone from their side.