Minister of state for finance Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday stressed on the need for setting up a financial management group to scrutinise various social schemes right at their formation stage to remove the disconnect that often exists between the policy and the ground level realities, particularly in the sphere of financial management. Bansal emphasised on the need for revising the system of classification of accounts with a view to remove the artificial distinction between plan and non-plan expenditures. He also suggested exploring alternative and innovative ways of allocating outlays and said that there should be independent evaluations of the public programmes.