GATE 2027 in Roorkee: Exam City, IIT Roorkee Zone and the UP Border

Every GATE zone has a coordinating institute that handles exam cities for its part of the country. For Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Ambala, Mohali-Chandigarh and five cities of western Uttar Pradesh, that institute is IIT Roorkee. The official exam-city page lists its contact exactly as:

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

Write from your registered email and put your enrolment ID in the subject. Questions about the application portal or the papers themselves go to IIT Madras, the organising institute for 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Having the office nearby changes nothing about where you sit the paper. Your centre comes from GATE's allotment and is printed on the admit card. Do not assume it will be on the IIT campus, and do not walk in to ask for a particular centre.

Roorkee is one of four tehsils of Haridwar district, along with Haridwar, Bhagwanpur and Laksar, according to the district administration. Of these, only Roorkee appears on the GATE 2027 list. Haridwar town is not an exam city. If you live in Jwalapur, Bhagwanpur or Laksar, Roorkee is the listed name inside your own district, and Dehradun is the other obvious choice in the state.

Uttarakhand has five names in all: Almora, Dehradun, Haldwani, Pauri-Garhwal and Roorkee. Each is a separate entry, so Roorkee and Dehradun can both go on your form.

The district site also notes that Haridwar is bordered by Saharanpur, Muzaffar Nagar and Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh. Saharanpur and Bijnor are not on the GATE list at all. Muzaffarnagar is, and it is in your zone.

You pick six cities, and all six must come from one zone. The list is tentative. GATE can add or drop a city and may allot one outside your six. A workable order for someone who lives or studies here:

1. Roorkee
2. Dehradun
3. Muzaffarnagar
4. Meerut
5. Haldwani
6. NOIDA or Ghaziabad, if you will be in the NCR in February

Order them by where you can sleep the night before, not by distance on a map. A hosteller from Kumaon may want Haldwani or Almora higher. Someone whose family is in Chandigarh or Ambala can add Mohali-Chandigarh or Ambala, since both are in this zone. Moradabad is also available for students from that side of western UP.

The Dehradun page looks at the same zone from the Doon end.

Many Roorkee students come from western UP or plan to be home in Meerut or the NCR when the exam comes. Uttar Pradesh is split across three zones, and that is the part to get right.

Exam city	Zone
Roorkee, Dehradun, Haldwani, Almora, Pauri-Garhwal	IIT Roorkee
Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, NOIDA, Moradabad	IIT Roorkee
Greater NOIDA, Mathura, New Delhi, Gurugram	IIT Delhi
Bareilly, Lucknow, Kanpur and the rest of UP	IIT Kanpur

So Roorkee with NOIDA is fine, and Roorkee with Greater NOIDA is not, though they sit next to each other. Roorkee with New Delhi is also not allowed. If you will be in a Delhi hostel through February, an IIT Delhi-zone list may suit you better, and the Delhi page covers it.

One more mix-up: the "Srinagar" on the list is in Jammu and Kashmir, in the IIT Delhi zone. Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal, where NIT Uttarakhand is, is not on the list under that name.

Registration closed with the special window on 16 October 2026. If GATE flagged a defect in your application, the official dates page gives 30 November 2026 as the last day to fix it without a fee. The paid data correction window is still TBA, so do not plan on changing cities until GATE announces it.

The city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027. The admit card date is TBA; when it comes out, check the centre address and reporting time and work out the route that day. Results are due on 19 March 2027. If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, the two centres may differ.

For anyone coming in from outside, IIT Roorkee's own travel page says the town is on the Amritsar-Howrah main rail line, that the New Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi and Jan Shatabdi run via Roorkee, and that the main bus depot is on NH-58. It puts Roorkee about 170 km north of Delhi and Haridwar about 29 km further up the same highway, with Jolly Grant at Dehradun the nearest airport. If you are allotted Dehradun or Muzaffarnagar instead, travel the day before.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form and anything else the admit card asks for. Its instructions override any advice you read elsewhere, including here.

IIT Roorkee is in the town, and its GATEiit page sets out the GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates. NIT Uttarakhand, at Srinagar in Pauri Garhwal, is the other national institute in the state, and its page does the same.

Further out but in the same zone, GATEiit has pages for IIT Mandi, IIT Ropar, PEC Chandigarh, NIT Jalandhar and NIT Hamirpur. Towards Delhi, see IIT Delhi. The full set is on /institutes.

Your exam city plays no part in admission. Writing GATE in Roorkee gives no advantage at IIT Roorkee.

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

Start 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 a link to that paper's WhatsApp group.

Past papers are on /pyq and topic sets on /practice. The GATE DA 2027 guide and the GATE CSE 2027 guide set out a plan, and /guides has more. All six exam days fall on Saturdays and Sundays, so weekend mornings are the right slot for full mocks. For the national picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.