Hi,

Anyone can give exam in whichever stream he is interested in GATE. There have been many people who have done this and excelled.

Nowadays GATE score is also useful in selection in top PSUs of India like ONGC, NTPC, IOCL, PGCIL etc. ... These all PSUs provide good salary as well as good working environment.

ECE students are very much eligible for GATE exam in . A lot of other BTech students give GATE. I have a batchmate in IIT Kanpur who did his BTech in Mechanical and obtained 239 AIR in GATE 2020.

if you want to do job in psu you should appear in gate exam from ece stream since it has more recruitment than cs.

Hope this helps

Wish you luck