ghaziabad ritu maheshwari isnt leaving ghaziabad without regrets sitting in her camp office on friday clearing her last files as district magistrate maheshwari said she knew her transfer was only a matter of time and she was prepared for itin an actionpacked packed 22month stint during which she also held dual charge of ghaziabad development authority for several months maheshwari earned a reputation as a proactive officer who got things done one of the reasons was ghaziabads impressive performance in the swachh bharat rankings allindia 13th currently the other was stopping registries in illegal colonies in the face of political pressuresatisfying is how the 2003batch ias officer summed up her experience in ghaziabad during a chat with toi but at the same time pointed to unfinished business like the pollution problem and the state of the hindon river its not that work has not been done on the issue of pollution but i hoped more could have been done its the same with the rejuvenation of the hindon river she saidnoida whose infrastructure and traffic maheshwari identifies as priority areas will hope she brings the same dynamism to the city as she did to ghaziabad where under her watch major infrastructure projects like the hindon elevated road delhi metros red line extension and the hindon air bases new civilian terminal were completedthe decaying and missing infrastructure in noida will be high on my priority list and i hope to bring positive changes to turn noida into a model district it is with this mindset that i hope to take up my new responsibility said maheshwari i will also lay emphasis on making noida a green citymaheshwari said she was aware of the complicated real estate problems of noida my understanding as of now is that projects by jaypee and amarpali are being overseen by courts i will step in if my intervention is required she saidthe biggest challenge according to her has been to change the mindset of officials in different departments there were times when i got the feeling that officials were either reluctant or too lethargic to react in removing impediments plaguing projects maheshwari saidher crackdown on illegal colonies in ghaziabad the wake of the akash nagar building collapse was unprecedented my decision to stop registries in illegal colonies was not very popular but deep down i knew it was the only way to check such colonies she said adding she considered her work as chairperson of the district fee regulation committee rewarding ghaziabad till date is the only district in the state which has dealt with 22 cases of fee hike in many cases we were successful in reining in private schools from arbitrarily hiking fee she saidbefore coming to ghaziabad maheshwari served as director medical educationhealth family welfare and as dm in districts like jp nagar ghazipur pilibhit and shahjahanpur she also had stints as vicechairperson of meerut development authority and meerut joint commissioner