At first The Institute of Marine Engineers existed in India as a division of Institute of Marine Engineers, London. From there on the national foundation, named as The Institute of Marine Engineers (India) was enlisted as a Society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 on 29 October 1977. The main Governing Council of the Institute was shaped in 1980. The Institute was therefore enlisted as a Charitable Organization under Bombay Public Trust Act 1950 on 31 May 1982. The articles and purposes for which the Institute is comprised are to advance the logical advancement of Marine Engineering in the entirety of its branches and in the assistance of such learning, to empower Marine Engineers to meet and compare to encourage the entomb change of thoughts in regard of upgrades and improved strategies for working hardware, to distribute and convey data on such items, to maintain the status of individuals from the Institute by recommending or holding assessment for possibility for race or by requiring measures of information and experience which can be endorsed, to collaborate with Universities, other instructive establishments and open instructive bodies for the facilitation of training in designing science, and to establish and keep up a Benevolence finance, for bearing help to destitute individuals from the Institute and the groups of perished individuals. This store, being exclusively dedicated to conceding money related help subsequent to settling costs, to be known as the "Kindheartedness Fund", and to work according to explicit rules planned by the Institute.