Meet woman who studied at IIT, IIM, left lucrative job to crack UPSC exam, became IPS then IAS, her AIR was..

UPSC is India's toughest exam, followed by JEE for IIT and CAT for IIM. And there is one extraordinary person who has passed all three of them and is now an IAS officer.

We are talking about Divya Mittal, an IAS officer from Rewari, Haryana. She earned an engineering degree from the prestigious IIT Delhi. She later earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. She then landed a high-paying job in London. However, she left it to pursue her UPSC dreams and relocated to India with her husband, Gagandeep Singh.

She passed UPSC on her first attempt without coaching and became an IPS. In her second attempt, she received the 68th rank in the 2012 UPSC CSE and was subsequently appointed as an IAS officer. 

Divya is currently the District Magistrate (DM) of the Sant Kabir Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh, having previously served as the DM of Mirzapur. Gagandeep Singh, her spouse, is an IAS in Kanpur and also cleared the UPSC.
 
Divya emphasised the significance of focus and determination in accomplishing academic goals in her advice to applicants. She advised candidates to monitor their app and phone usage patterns frequently because distractions can be detrimental.