Uttarakhand Agriculture Minister Harak Singh Rawat said on Friday that it would take at least five years for the situation to normalize in Kedarnath.
Rawat, who was on a visit to Kedarnath area, said the center of faith has turned into a burial ground.
" Bodies are scattered in the area. Only the sanctum sanctorum is intact," he added.
Meanwhile, the distressed families of those stranded in Uttarakhand continue to criticize the state and central government for not doing their best to save the people.
Rescue team member Adesh Bhatt, however said that the administration is trying its best to reach out to the victims.
"There is a main patch of two to two and a half kilometre between Gaurikund and Kedarnath which is Garur Gauri Mandir also known as Garur Chatti. No help has reached there, but we are trying our best to reach there, through chopper or on foot," Bhatt told the media in Dehradun.
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"So, the administration has sent four of us, we will go there and along with the army we will try to make a bridge either with a rope or with ladder. We will work according to the conditions and try to reach out to the people as soon as possible so that they are rescued soon," he added.
Over 34,000 pilgrims and tourists have so far been evacuated from different parts of the flood-affected areas mostly from Rudraprayag, Tehri, Uttarkashi and Pithoragarh Districts.
Army, ITBP and National Disaster Response Force have launched one of the biggest human rescue operations.
Nearly 14,000 people are believed to be missing and another 60,000 are stranded.
Over 150 people are reported to be dead so far. The Uttarakhand State Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre has in its report to the Union Home Ministry said that casualties in the affected areas may run into thousands with about 90 'dharamashalas' (rest houses for pilgrims) swept away in the flash floods.
