India, March 9 -- IAS officer Divya Mittal is no stranger to struggle. Before cracking the country's toughest entrance exam to become a civil servant, she also studied at the two most prestigious institutes of India - the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore.

Reaching these institutes and becoming a bureaucrat would have required a lot of hard work and sacrifice, but Mittal says that none of it compares to the challenge of being a mother.

On the occasion of Women's Day yesterday, she shared a thread on the challenges of raising two young girls while balancing her professional commitments.

"I am an IAS officer. I have studied from IIT and IIM. I have struggled to achieve all ...