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 hotel, home or anywhere else, put it there," she says. "How can you do this to your religion and your country?" she asks. Roughly 30,000 vehicles are entering the state capital every day, said officials. Expressing concern, environmentalist and founder of NGO Healing Himalayas, Pradeep Sangwan, said the issue requires urgent policy intervention alongside community participation. The NGO has been working on waste management in the mountains for over a decade. Sangwan said, "From a policy perspective, Himachal and other Himalayan destinations need to identify tourist destinations according to footfall. Locations such as Atal Tunnel should have policies based on the number of visitors they receive." Over the past ten years, we have established eight material recovery facilities at environmentally sensitive locations, including Atal Tunnel and Chitkul, he said....