EIA Methodologies and Process
1. The current EIA methodologies and process are seriously flawed. The result of EIA study has not been balanced. As in some case, EIA study is being focused either on scientific analysis, or in management aspect and the linkages of EIA to the planning of social and economic development are still not clear.
2. In most of the cases, EIA concentrates on adverse environmental effects, however the objectives of EIA are to minimize adverse effects and enhance the beneficial impacts.
3. The EIA reports produced tend to be an academic, bureaucratic, mechanistic and voluminous and most of them become counterproductive and time consuming.
4. The description of analysis given in most of EIA reports is too mechanistic in the sense that the final outcomes of any adverse affect are mostly ignored.

Monitoring and Post Audit
EIA, as it is practiced now, ends immediately after the approval of a project has been received. Compliance monitoring is seldom carried out, either by the project proponents or by the responsible government agencies. This practice is contributing to several problems, and some of them are:
• Different kind of analyses in EIA are being carried out with the main objective of getting the projects cleared quickly for implementation. The whole purpose of such analyses is to justify the projects. Such an analysis without follow-up monitoring circumvents the purpose of EIA.
• In most EIAs of major development projects, it is impossible to predict with complete reliability of all potential environmental impacts, their magnitudes, and time of occurrence. Thus, follow-up monitoring must be an essential requirement, if environmental impacts are to be properly managed.
• It is not possible to judge the overall effectiveness of EIA without follow-up monitoring. Proper monitoring and audit are essential to ensure that the recommendations made by the study have been actually implemented. Reliable data on post-project impacts and their comparison with predicted ones can give a clear indication of the accuracy of EIA predictions. Such results could be successfully used to develop more cost-effective methodology in the future.