GATE 2027 in Pauri-Garhwal: IIT Roorkee Zone, Hill Travel and Institutes

Look up Uttarakhand on the official exam-city page and you find five names: Almora, Dehradun, Haldwani, Pauri-Garhwal and Roorkee. Ours is the only one written as a district rather than a town, spelt exactly "Pauri-Garhwal".

That matters because Pauri Garhwal is a big district. The district administration lists nine tehsils: Pauri, Lansdown, Kotdwar, Thalisain, Chobattakhal, Srinagar, Satpuli, Dhumakot and Yamkeshwar. Pauri town, the headquarters, sits at about 1,650 m.

The GATE list does not say where in the district the Pauri-Garhwal centres will be, and neither will this page. Choosing it means you are willing to write somewhere in the district; the exact address arrives with your admit card. The list is also tentative. GATE may add or remove a city and can allot one outside your six choices. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

Many of us say "Srinagar" and mean the Alaknanda town where NIT Uttarakhand is. On the GATE 2027 list, "Srinagar" means the city in Jammu and Kashmir. It is in the IIT Delhi zone, together with Jammu - Samba and Leh.

Two consequences follow. Selecting "Srinagar" will not get you a centre in Garhwal. And because all six choices must come from one zone, Srinagar cannot sit on the same form as Pauri-Garhwal, Dehradun or any other Uttarakhand entry.

If you live or study in Srinagar Garhwal, the entry that covers your district is Pauri-Garhwal. The Srinagar city page is written for students in Kashmir.

Your zone is coordinated by IIT Roorkee and covers Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Mohali-Chandigarh, Ambala and five cities of western Uttar Pradesh. For someone in Pauri Garhwal, these are the realistic names:

1. Pauri-Garhwal
2. Dehradun
3. Roorkee
4. Haldwani
5. Almora
6. Moradabad, Muzaffarnagar or Meerut, depending on where family is

The district administration describes Pauri Garhwal as ringed by Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Tehri Garhwal to the north, Bijnor and Udham Singh Nagar to the south, Almora and Nainital to the east, and Dehradun and Haridwar to the west. Of the towns those names suggest, Tehri, Rudraprayag, Chamoli, Haridwar, Rishikesh and Bijnor are not on the list at all. If your family is across the border in Uttar Pradesh, Moradabad and Muzaffarnagar are in your zone, while Bareilly is IIT Kanpur zone and cannot be added.

Order the six by where you can spend the night before the paper. The Dehradun and Roorkee pages describe the same zone from the plains.

The exams fall on 6 and 7, 13 and 14, and 20 and 21 February 2027. That is winter here, and the district's own site notes that many parts of Pauri receive snowfall in winter, and that most roads away from the main routes are not metalled and are prone to land slips.

So plan the approach the day the admit card comes. Check the centre address and how long the drive really takes. If the centre is in a different valley from home, stay near it the evening before. The district site gives the main road links as the Tehri-Moradabad state highway through Kotdwar, Lansdowne, Pauri and Srinagar. It puts the nearest railheads at Kotdwar, 108 km from Pauri, and Rishikesh, 117 km, and Jolly Grant airport at Dehradun 131 km away via Devprayag or 155 km via Srinagar.

If you are allotted Dehradun or Roorkee instead, travel the day before. Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you gave in your application, and only what the admit card allows.

Exam-city questions for Pauri-Garhwal go to the IIT Roorkee zone office, listed as:

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

Questions about the application itself go to IIT Madras, the organising institute for 2027, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Use your registered email and quote your enrolment ID.

Fixing a scrutiny defect without fee closes on 30 November 2026, according to the official dates page. The paid data correction window, on candidate request, is TBA, so do not count on changing cities yet. The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, the admit card date is TBA, and results are due on 19 March 2027. If you take DA and CS together, an allowed pair, the second centre may differ from the first but will be in the same city.

NIT Uttarakhand is inside our district. Its contact page gives the address as Srinagar, Pauri (Garhwal) 246174, and its travel page says the temporary campus is in the Government Polytechnic, Srinagar Garhwal, about 105 km from Rishikesh on NH-58. The contact page lists a permanent campus under construction at Village Sumari. Its GATEiit page explains its GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

IIT Roorkee, the zone office, is the other institute in the state with a GATEiit page. In the same zone you will also find pages for IIT Mandi, IIT Ropar and NIT Hamirpur. The full list is on /institutes.

The exam city plays no part in admission, so writing in Pauri-Garhwal gives no edge at NIT Uttarakhand.

GATEiit is a free online site, with no centre or office in Pauri Garhwal or anywhere else. What it offers works on a phone or laptop wherever you have a connection.

Choose your paper first: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each page carries the syllabus and the link to that paper's WhatsApp group.

Then work through previous papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice, with the GATE DA 2027 preparation guide or the GATE CSE 2027 preparation guide as your plan, and the other guides for single topics. All six exam days are weekends, so hold Saturday and Sunday mornings for full timed mocks. The GATE 2027 page and the exam-city overview give the national view.