The Institute of Marine Engineers existed in India as a division of Institute of Marine Engineers, London. From there on the national organization, named as The Institute of Marine Engineers (India) was enrolled as a Society under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860 on 29 October 1977. The principal 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 established are to advance the logical improvement 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 bury change of thoughts in regard of upgrades and improved techniques for working hardware, to distribute and impart data on such protests, to maintain the status of individuals from the Institute by recommending or holding assessment for contender for decision or by requiring benchmarks of information and experience which can be affirmed, to coordinate with Universities, other instructive organizations and open instructive bodies for the facilitation of training in designing science, and to comprise and keep up a Benevolence subsidize, for bearing help to impoverished individuals from the Institute and the groups of expired individuals. This reserve, being exclusively committed to allowing money related help in the wake of settling costs, to be known as the "Altruism Fund", and to work according to explicit rules figured by the Institute.
