GATE 2027 in Silchar: Barak Valley Exam City, Zone Rules and Institutes

The GATE 2027 exam-city page has Silchar as a single entry under Assam, next to Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Jorhat and Tezpur. Hailakandi and Karimganj, the districts that the Cachar administration describes as adjoining Cachar, are not on the list, so if you live there, Silchar is your local option.

All five Assam cities fall in the IIT Guwahati zone. So do the cities of every other north-eastern state, Sikkim, Bihar, two Jharkhand cities and five in West Bengal.

The rules that shape your form:

• You pick six cities, and all six must come from one zone.
• The list is tentative. GATE can add or drop a city.
• GATE can allot you a city that is not among your six if it has to.
• The exam is held only in India.

Silchar is the headquarters of Cachar district, according to the district administration.

From Silchar the same-zone rule costs you very little. The capitals of the neighbouring states are all on the IIT Guwahati list, which means your back-ups can be places where you have a relative, a hostel friend or a known route.

A list many of us would start from:

1. Silchar
2. Agartala
3. Aizawl
4. Imphal
5. Shillong
6. Guwahati

Swap the order to suit where you can stay the night before. Thoubal sits under Manipur as a separate name from Imphal, and Dimapur-Kohima covers Nagaland. If your family is in Upper Assam, Jorhat or Dibrugarh may serve you better than a hill city.

Be realistic about Guwahati. NIT Silchar's own travel page says a 326 km National Highway links Silchar and Guwahati, and that buses run between the two every morning and evening. That is an overnight trip, not a morning commute, so put Guwahati only where you would genuinely go.

Ranking Silchar first does not guarantee it. Every city on your list should be one you can reach and sleep near in February.

The zone map is kind to anyone whose family lives elsewhere in the north-east. If your home is in Agartala, Aizawl, Imphal, Shillong or Kohima, you can list Silchar and your home city on one form, because they are all IIT Guwahati zone.

The trap is for anyone from south Bengal or Odisha:

City	Zone
Silchar and every north-eastern city	IIT Guwahati
Siliguri, Kalyani, Durgapur, Asansol, Burdwan	IIT Guwahati
Patna, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Purnea, Dhanbad, Bokaro Steel City	IIT Guwahati
Kolkata, Howrah and the rest of south Bengal	IIT Kharagpur
Bhubaneswar and all of Odisha	IIT Kharagpur

A Kolkata student at a Silchar college must decide where they will be in February. Silchar and Kolkata on the same form is not allowed. If you will be home in Kolkata, build an IIT Kharagpur list using the Kolkata page. If home is Durgapur or Asansol, see the Durgapur page; those cities can sit with Silchar. Bihar students can mix Silchar with Patna, as the Patna page explains.

Since registration has closed, any change to your cities depends on the data correction window, which the official dates page still shows as TBA.

Exam-city questions go to the zone's coordinating institute, IIT Guwahati: Guwahati 781 039, gate@iitg.ac.in, 0361-2582751. Mail from the address you registered with and quote your enrolment ID.

For the portal or the paper itself, write to IIT Madras, the organising institute for GATE 2027: helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in, 044-22578200.

Step	Date
Fixing scrutiny defects in the form (no fee)	closes 30 November 2026
Data correction window (with fee)	TBA
City allotment notification	4 January 2027
Admit card	TBA
Exams	6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 February 2027
Results	19 March 2027

The admit card names the exact centre and reporting time. A Silchar centre need not be near your college or home, so find it on a map the evening the admit card appears and work out your route.

If you are allotted Silchar from outside the valley, NIT Silchar's travel page notes that the town has an airport (the district site places it at Kumbhirgram), a rail link to Lumding and Guwahati, and an inter-state bus terminus. Plan to arrive a day early.

If you write DA and CS together, which GATE 2027 allows, your second paper's centre may be different, though in the same city. Read both sessions on the admit card.

Carry the printed admit card, the original photo ID you entered in the form and anything else the admit card lists. Its rules on what you may take in are final.

NIT Silchar is in the city itself. Its contact page gives the address as Silchar, Cachar, Assam 788010, and its travel page says the campus is about 10 km from Silchar railway station. The GATEiit page sets out its GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Within Assam, IIT Guwahati is the other obvious name. Further west, GATEiit pages for NIT Durgapur, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Kharagpur explain their routes. The full list is on /institutes.

Your exam city has nothing to do with admission. Sitting GATE in Silchar gives no advantage at NIT Silchar, and sitting it in Shillong costs you nothing there.

GATEiit is an online site. It has no centre in Silchar or anywhere else, and everything on it is free.

Begin on your paper's page, GATE DA or GATE CSE, for the syllabus and the paper's WhatsApp group. 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; /guides has the rest.

Every exam day is a Saturday or Sunday, so write your full mocks on weekend mornings. For the national picture, see GATE 2027 and the exam-city overview.