GATE 2027 in Raipur: IIT Kharagpur Zone, Bhilai-Durg and Bilaspur

On the official exam-city page, Chhattisgarh has three entries, all under the IIT Kharagpur zone: Bhilai-Durg, Bilaspur and Raipur.

Treat them as three different choices. Raipur on your form does not cover Bhilai or Durg; that is its own option, written as "Bhilai-Durg". If you live in Bhilai and want to write there, pick Bhilai-Durg by name, and add Raipur separately if you also want it.

One thing to watch when you scroll the list. The list carries a second "Bilaspur", under Himachal Pradesh in the IIT Roorkee zone. That is a different town in a different zone. The one you want is the Bilaspur printed under Chhattisgarh.

The rules are the same everywhere. You choose six cities, and all six must be from one zone. The list is tentative, GATE may add or remove a city, and it may allot you a city outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

The cities around Chhattisgarh fall in four different zones on the official list, and those to the west, north and south are not in ours:

City on the list	State	Zone
Raipur, Bhilai-Durg, Bilaspur	Chhattisgarh	IIT Kharagpur
Sambalpur, Rourkela	Odisha	IIT Kharagpur
Nagpur, Wardha, Chandrapur	Maharashtra	IIT Bombay
Jabalpur, Satna	Madhya Pradesh	IIT Kanpur
Hyderabad	Telangana	IISc

So Nagpur, the big city to the west, is out if Raipur is on your form. So are Jabalpur and Satna to the north, and Hyderabad to the south. The two cities in our zone that are next door are in Odisha: Sambalpur and Rourkela.

You have to pick a zone first and then cities inside it. If you want Nagpur, the whole form becomes an IIT Bombay-zone form and Raipur drops off it.

Chhattisgarh gives you three choices. The other three have to come from elsewhere in the IIT Kharagpur zone, which also covers Odisha, Jharkhand, south and central West Bengal, and nine Andhra Pradesh cities including Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. One list that keeps you close to home:

1. Raipur
2. Bhilai-Durg
3. Bilaspur
4. Sambalpur
5. Rourkela
6. Bhubaneswar, Ranchi or Visakhapatnam, whichever you could reach and stay in most easily

Put the city you would most like first. If you live in Durg or Bhilai, Bhilai-Durg should probably lead. For the sixth slot, a relative's house or a friend's room near the city counts for more than the map does. The Bhubaneswar, Ranchi and Visakhapatnam pages cover those cities.

If you study outside Chhattisgarh, the zone rule asks one question: where will you be on the exam weekends, 6 and 7, 13 and 14, or 20 and 21 February 2027?

• At home in Chhattisgarh: an IIT Kharagpur list built around Raipur, as above.
• In a hostel in Nagpur or elsewhere in Maharashtra: an IIT Bombay list. See the Nagpur page.
• In Bhopal, Jabalpur or Gwalior: an IIT Kanpur list. See the Bhopal page.
• In Hyderabad: an IISc list. See the Hyderabad page.

Registration for GATE 2027 has closed; the special window ended on 16 October 2026. The official dates page shows the data correction window as TBA, so do not plan on changing cities until GATE announces it.

For Raipur, the coordinating institute is IIT Kharagpur. Its contact, exactly as listed: IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, gateonline@adm.iitkgp.ac.in, 03222-282091 and 03222-282095. Write from the email ID you registered with and quote your enrolment ID.

For the application portal or a paper, the organising institute is IIT Madras: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

City allotment is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is still TBA, and it is the admit card that names your centre and reporting time. A centre can be well outside the part of the city you know, so look it up the day the admit card arrives and plan the route from where you will sleep. If you get Bilaspur, Sambalpur or Rourkela and live in Raipur, go the evening before.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the official page says the second paper's centre may be different, though in the same city. Check both.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you gave in the form, and anything else the admit card lists. Its instructions are final. Results are due on 19 March 2027.

Two institutes with GATEiit pages are close by.

• NIT Raipur, on G.E. Road in Raipur.
• IIT Bhilai, whose permanent campus is in Kutelabhata village, Bhilai, Durg district. IIT Bhilai's own site puts it about 5.4 km from Durg railway station and about 54 km from Raipur airport at Mana.

Each page sets out that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. Further away, students from here also look at IIT Kharagpur, NIT Rourkela, IIT Bhubaneswar, VNIT Nagpur and MANIT Bhopal. The full list is on /institutes.

Your exam city has no link to admission. Writing GATE in Bhilai-Durg gives no edge at IIT Bhilai, and writing in Raipur gives none at NIT Raipur.

GATEiit is a free online site. It has no centre or office in Raipur, Bhilai or anywhere else.

Begin with your paper's page: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each has the syllabus and the WhatsApp group link for that paper.

After that, work through past papers on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide lay out a plan, and /guides has the rest. All six exam days are Saturdays or Sundays, so a weekend mock at the same hour each week is good practice.

For the wider picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.