He almost gave up. But a senior inspector named Mr. Mehta took him for tea. "You're seeing the fee," Mehta said. "You're not seeing the story of the fee."
On day 4 of the course, the instructor held up a failed pipe weld. "This has six embedded slag lines. Your cheap gauge won't find them. Your eye won't find them. The CSWIP exam will fail you." cswip welding inspector course fees
The barrier was the CSWIP 3.0 (Visual Welding Inspector) certification from TWI (The Welding Institute, UK). It was the gold standard globally, but the cost was a terrifying unknown. He’d heard rumors: "₹2 lakhs minimum." "You fail, you pay again." "You need to buy your own magnification glass and feeler gauges." He almost gave up