Shimla, June 19 -- A foreign traveller visiting Himachal has expressed her concerns over large scale littering in a viral video, raising questions on civic sense and danger to the ecologically fragile Himalayan state.

In the video, the female traveller points to heaps of garbage at several locations and appeals to people to keep the hill town clean. "I have just one request--please stop doing this. I am in Shimla, and while travelling here I saw garbage in many places. You call this place the land of the gods, so how can you litter these areas?" she says.

She also urges people to keep trash inside their vehicles and avoid throwing it outside. "Why can't you keep your trash inside the car you are travelling in? When you find a bin at a h...