Thank you for pricing the thing out loud, since most of us only complain after we have paid. On your first point, the accreditor toll: kindly note that my licence carries no credit scheme at all. A customs broker licence in India runs ten years and is renewed on performance and an absence of complaints, so nobody sells me hours, and a one person desk is not charged for staying current. The burden lands elsewhere: the exam our cardholders sit, and the circulars on ICEGATE that I must read anyway. That is a parallel, not your law. On your second point, may I suggest the government's own outreach webinars, which I read are free and do count. I wish you a quiet certification.
Rajesh, the line that lands for me is that nobody sells you hours, because that is the whole difference. I am a year in, and every free training hour I have been given was paid for by a vendor with something to sell, or by the revenue service here wanting fewer errors from us. Free does not mean aimed at you. And a free outreach hour still costs Gary the hour, which on a one person desk is the expensive part, not the fee. Does the free one land at a time a clearing desk can sit still for?