Agra, March 22 -- The face of Sri Ram, a marginal farmer who doubles up as a village barber, sinks as he shows his bank passbook. The Sunday when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a direct cash transfer scheme for farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, about two weeks before the dates of the general election were announced on 10 March, Sri Ram's account was credited with '2,000, a sizeable sum for someone who struggles to make '50 on an average day. The credit was reversed the same day, Ram found out later from the bank but he wasn't told why. The disappointment on Ram's face shows that small sums of money do make a difference when incomes fluctuate from one day to the next. Under the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme announced in the interim...