GATE 2027 in Udaipur: IIT Delhi Zone, the Gujarat Trap and Institutes

The GATE 2027 exam-city page has one entry for us, plain "Udaipur", in the Rajasthan row of the zone coordinated by IIT Delhi. No part of the city has a separate name. You pick Udaipur, GATE assigns the centre, and the admit card tells you the address.

Being in the IIT Delhi zone does not send anyone to Delhi to write. The zone does two jobs: it fixes which cities you can combine with Udaipur, and it decides which office handles your exam-city queries.

The rules from the same page are short. You choose six cities, and all six must come from one zone. The list is tentative, so GATE can add or drop a city or allot one outside your six. GATE 2027 is held only in India.

If you live in Chittorgarh, Dungarpur or Rajsamand, you will not find your town on the list. The Rajasthan Tourism page on Udaipur puts Chittorgarh 117 km and Dungarpur 103 km from Udaipur, so many of you will treat Udaipur as the home choice anyway.

This is the one mistake that a southern Rajasthan student is most likely to make. Ahmedabad feels close. The Rajasthan Tourism page itself lists Ahmedabad among the cities Udaipur is linked to by road and by rail. Plenty of us have relatives there or study there.

On the GATE form, though, Gujarat belongs to a different zone:

City	Zone on the GATE 2027 list
Udaipur, Jodhpur, Ajmer, Jaipur, Kota	IIT Delhi
Indore, Ujjain	IIT Delhi
Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Vadodara, Rajkot, Surat - Bardoli	IIT Bombay
Bhopal, Gwalior, Agra	IIT Kanpur

So Udaipur and Ahmedabad can never sit on one form. If you are studying in Gujarat and would rather write there, drop Udaipur and build a full IIT Bombay list instead; the Ahmedabad page and the Vadodara page work through that side, and Mumbai - Thane belongs to the same zone.

The opposite surprise is Madhya Pradesh. Indore and Ujjain are IIT Delhi zone like us, but Bhopal and Gwalior are IIT Kanpur zone. The Indore page explains that split.

Since all eight Rajasthan cities share our zone, a Rajasthan-only list can never break the rule. One way to fill it if you live in Udaipur:

1. Udaipur
2. Ajmer
3. Jodhpur
4. Kota
5. Jaipur
6. Ujjain or Indore, if you have somewhere to stay there

The Tourism page lists Ajmer and Jaipur among the cities with a rail link from Udaipur, which is one reason to keep them high. Reorder to suit February. A student on an internship in Gurugram or New Delhi can lead with those, since both are IIT Delhi zone. NOIDA is not; it is IIT Roorkee zone, as is Bathinda across the Punjab border. Greater NOIDA and Mathura, oddly, are ours.

Registration is closed, so if you registered, your six are already fixed. The official dates page lists the paid application correction window as TBA.

Exam-city questions go to IIT Delhi's GATE office, exactly as the official page gives it: gateoffice@admin.iitd.ac.in, 011-26591749, Hauz Khas, New Delhi– 110 016. For anything about the portal or your application, write to the organising institute, IIT Madras, at helpdesk@gate.iitm.ac.in or 044-22578200. Use your registered email ID and quote your enrolment ID.

From the important dates page: the city allotment notification is due on 4 January 2027, the admit card date is TBA, and results are due on 19 March 2027. The page says dates can change. All six exam days are Saturdays and Sundays in February.

Once the admit card is out, find the centre on a map and work out the route from wherever you will sleep the night before. Centres are not always in the part of the city you know.

If you are coming back from a job or college elsewhere, the Tourism page names Dabok Airport, also called Maharana Pratap Airport, about 25 km north-east of the city centre, and lists rail links to Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Jaipur, Delhi and Mumbai among others. Allow for that 25 km if you are flying in on the morning itself; better still, arrive the day before.

If GATE allots you Ajmer, Jodhpur or another back-up, travel the previous day. Writing DA and CS both? The two-paper page says the second paper's centre may be different, though in the same city, so check both addresses.

Carry the printed admit card and the original photo ID you used when you applied, and follow the admit card's list of what is allowed in.

None of the institutes GATEiit covers is in Udaipur itself. The two in Rajasthan are IIT Jodhpur, whose site gives its address as N.H. 62, Nagaur Road, Karwar, Jodhpur, and MNIT Jaipur, on Jawahar Lal Nehru Marg, Jaipur. IIIT Kota is the other Rajasthan option. Each page explains that institute's GATE routes for DA and CSE candidates.

Across the border, IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Indore are worth a look, along with IIT Delhi, which also runs our zone. The full list is at /institutes.

Your exam city has no bearing on admission. Writing in Udaipur gives no edge at IIT Jodhpur, and writing in Ajmer costs nothing at IIT Gandhinagar.

GATEiit is online only. It has no centre, office or classroom in Udaipur or anywhere else, and everything on it is free.

Start with your paper: GATE DA for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, or GATE CSE for Computer Science and Information Technology. Each page has the syllabus and the link to the WhatsApp group where aspirants talk through doubts. DA and CS are an allowed two-paper pair in GATE 2027.

Then work through previous papers at /pyq and topic sets at /practice. The GATE DA 2027 preparation guide and the GATE CSE 2027 preparation guide set out a plan, and /guides has more. Since every paper falls on a weekend, sit your mocks on Saturday and Sunday at the real slot timings.

The GATE 2027 page holds the timeline, the city overview links every city page, and the Jodhpur, Jaipur and Kota pages cover the rest of Rajasthan.