THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA) George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland and

the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the

Faith, Emperor of India.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting!
Whereas the Association or Institution incorporated under the
Indian Companies Act, 1913, and known as the Institution of
ROYAL CHARTER Engineers (India) hath petitioned Us for a Charter of Incorporation
such as is in and by these Presents granted :
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, AND WHEREAS We are minded to comply with the prayer of
The 13th day of August 1935 such Petition :
PRESENT, NOW THEREFORE We by virtue of Our Royal Prerogative
in that behalf, and of all other powers enabling Us so to do, of Our
THE KING’S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY special grace certain knowledge and mere motion do hereby, for Us,
IN COUNCIL Our Heirs and Successors, will, grant, direct, appoint and declare as
WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Report of follows :–
a Committee of the Lords of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy 1. The Persons now Members of the said Association or
Council, dated the 1st day of August, 1935, in the words following, Institution known as the Institution of Engineers (India) and all such
viz. :- persons as may hereafter become Members of the Body Corporate
“YOUR MAJESTY having been pleased, by Your Order of the hereby constituted pursuant to or by virtue of the powers granted by
21st day of February, 1935, to refer unto this Committee the these Presents, and their Successors, shall for ever hereafter (so long
humble Petition of Sir Thomas Guthrie Russell, President of as they shall continue to be such Members) be by virtue of these
the Institution of Engineers (India) and others praying for the Presents one Body Corporate and Politic by the name of “The
grant of a Charter of Incorporation to the said Institution : Institution of Engineers (India)” and by the same name shall have
perpetual succession and a Common Seal, with power to break, alter
“THE L ORDS OF THE C OMMITTEE, in obedience to Your and make a new the said Seal from time to time at their will and
Majesty’s said Order of Reference, have taken the said pleasure, and by the same name shall and may sue and be sued in all
Petition into consideration, and do this day agree humbly to Courts, and in all manner of actions and suits, and shall have power to
report, as their opinion, to Your Majesty, that a Charter may do all other matters and things incidental or appertaining to a Body
be granted by Your Majesty in terms of the Draft hereunto Corporate, including power to take an hold personal property and
annexed.” power to purchase, take on lease and hold lands, tenements or
HIS MAJESTY, having taken into consideration the said hereditaments or any interest in any lands, tenaments or
Report, and the Draft Charter accompanying it, was pleased, by and hereditaments whatsoever in Our Indian Empire for the purposes of
with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order, the Institution and power to sell, let on lease, alienate, or otherwise
as it is hereby ordered, that the Most Honourable the Marquess of dispose of the same or any part thereof.
Zetland, one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, do cause 2. The objects and purposes for which the Institution of
a Warrant to be prepared for His Majesty’s Royal Signature, for Engineers (India) (hereinafter called “the Institution”) is hereby
passing under the Great Seal a Charter in conformity with the said constituted are to promote the general advancement of engineering
Draft, which is hereunto annexed. and engineering science and their application in India and to facilitate
E.C.E. Leadbitter. the exchange of information and ideas on those subjects amongst the

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Members of and persons attached to the Institution and otherwise, establish professorships, studentships, scholarships,
and for that purpose – rewards and other benefactions and to grant
(a) To promote and advance the science, practice and certificates of competency whether under any Act
business of Engineering in all its branches (hereinafter of the Government of India or Local Governments
referred to as “Engineering”) in India. regulating the conduct and qualifications of
Engineers or otherwise howsoever.
(b) To establish, subsidise, promote, form and maintain local
Associations of members belonging to the Institution (g) To give the Government of India, the Local Governments
and others engaged or interested in Engineering so as and Municipalities and other public bodies and others,
to assure to each individual member as far as may be facilities for conferring with and ascertaining the views
possible equal opportunity to enjoy the rights and of Engineers as regards matters directly or indirectly
privileges of the Institution. affecting Engineering and to confer with the said
Governments, Municipalities and other public bodies
(c) To diffuse among its members information on all matters and others in regard to all matters affecting
affecting Engineering and to encourage, assist and Engineering.
extend knowledge and information connected
therewith by establishment and promotion of lectures, (h) To encourage inventions and investigate and make
discussions or correspondence; by the holding of known their nature and merits.
conferences; by the publication of papers, periodicals (i) To arrange and promote the adoption of equitable forms
or journals, books, circulars and maps or other literary of contracts and other documents used in
undertaking; by encouraging research work; or by the Engineering and to encourage the settlement of
formation of a library or libraries and collection of disputes by arbitration and to act as or nominate
models, designs, drawings, and other articles of arbitrators and umpires on such terms and in such
interest in connection with Engineering or otherwise cases as may seem expedient.
howsoever.
(j) To promote efficiency and just and honourable dealing
(d) To promote the study of Engineering with a view to and to suppress malpractice in engineering.
disseminate the information obtained for facilitating the
scientific and economic development of Engineering (k) To do all such other acts and things as are incidental or
in India. conducive to the attainment of the above objects or
any of them.
(e) To establish, acquire, carry on, control or advise with
regard to colleges, schools or other educational 3. With a view to the better attainment of the objects of the
establishments where students and apprentices may Institution, the Institution shall use its best endeavours to arrange (in
obtain a sound education and training in Engineering so far as not already arranged) the sub-division of India into areas
on such terms as may be settled by the Institution. and the establishment of local centres for the members and others of
the attached to the Institution who reside or are occupied in those
(f) To encourage, regulate and elevate the technical and areas and shall from time to time prescribe and when desirable alter
general knowledge of persons engaged in or about to the boundaries of such areas which shall be regulated in such manner
engage in Engineering or in any employment manual as the Bye Laws for the time being of the Institution shall prescribe.
or otherwise in connection therewith and with a
view thereto to provide for the holding of classes 4. The Institution shall not carry on any trade or business or
and to test by examination or otherwise the engage in any transaction with a view to the pecuniary gain or profit
competence of such persons and to institute and of the Members thereof. No Member shall have any personal claim

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on any property of the Institution and no part of the income or Diwan Bahadur Nuggihalli Narasim Ayyangar,
property of the Institution shall be paid or transferred directly or Raja Jwala Prasad, and
indirectly by way of dividend or bonus or otherwise howsoever by Alexander Jardine, D.Sc.
way of profit to the Members of the Institution except in the case of (d) the following members of the said Association or
and as a salaried officer of the Institution. Institution, namely :–
5. There shall be a Council of the Institution consisting of such Pritamdas Bhojraj Advani,
number of members, with such qualifications, and to be elected or Malcolm Ramsay Atkins,
constituted as such Members of Council in such manner, and to hold Probhat Nath Banerjee,
office for such period, and on such terms as to re-election and Fakirjee Eduljee Bharucha,
otherwise, as the Bye-laws for the time being of the Institution shall Rai Bahadur Mul Chand Bijawat, M.A.,
direct. Sir Maurice William Brayshay,
6. Unless and until the Bye-laws for the time being of the Henry Burkinshaw,
Institution shall otherwise direct – George William Burley,
Kaiyalat Chakko Chakko,
(a) The Council at their last meeting prior to the annual Dewan Bahadur Kashinath Ramachandra
general meeting of the Institution in each year shall Godbole, C.B.E.,
elect from among their number a President for Edward Joseph Bernal Greenwood,
the ensuing year, and the President so elected shall
Frederick Charles Griffin,
enter into his office at that ensuing annual general
Sri Krishna Gurtu, M.A.,
meeting and shall be ex-officio a member of the
Bertram Lionel Harvey, O.B.E.,
Council for the ensuing year;
George McCausland Hoey,
(b) Of the members of the Council of the Institution, other Abdul Ghafoor Khan,
than the President, such number as shall coincide Raj Krishna,
with the total number of local centres for the time Rai Bahadur Makkhan Lal,
being of the Institution shall be Vice-Presidents, Richard Harington Martin,
and the said Vice Presidents shall be the Narayan Vinayak Modak,
respective Chairmen for the time being of the Mohsin Ali,
several local centres of the Institution. Rao Bahadur Gopalaswami Nagaratnam Ayyar,
7. The first President of the Institution shall be Colonel Sir Colonel Sir James Scott Pitkeathly, C.M.G., C.I.E.,
Thomas Guthrie Russell, and the first Vice Presidents shall be C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O.,
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Irving Sleigh, V.D., Norman Bruce Raj Narain, M.B.E.,
Macbeth, Rao Bahadur Carnapati Vencata Krishnaswamy Chetty, Dewan Bahadur Autoor Vengu Ayyar Ramalinga
Alexander Fordyce Harvey and Khan Bahadur Mohammad Abdul Ayyar,
Aziz. Douglas Henry Remfry,
Sir Percy Rothera, O.B.E.,
The first Members of the Council shall be :– Colonel Frederick Charles Temple, C.I.E.,
(a) The said President; Rai Bahadur Bhagwati Prasada Varma,
(b) the said Vice Presidents; Arthur Tom Weston, M.Sc.,
(c) the following Past Presidents of the said Association Major George Bransby Williams, J.P., and
or Institution, namely :– Colonel Sir George Henry Willis, C.I.E., M.V.O.,
Christopher Addams Williams, C.I.E., R.E.

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 (e) the following Associate Members of the said 12. Unless and until the Bye-laws of the Institution shall
Association or Institution, namely :– otherwise provide the Institution may attach to itself students,
associates and subscribers, which expressions shall have the
Alexander Macdonald, meanings respectively assigned to them by the Articles of
Birendra Nath Mookerjee, Association and Bye-laws of the existing Association or Institution
Radha Lal, and known as the Institution of Engineers (India). The students,
Raja Ram. associates and subscribers attached to the said existing Association
The said President, Vice Presidents and Members of the Council or Institution shall be deemed to be attached similarly to the
shall respectively hold office as such until the due election and coming Institution.
into office of their successors in accordance with the Bye-laws of 13. The qualifications, method and terms of admission,
the Institution, but shall be respectively eligible, subject to such privileges, and obligations, including liability to expulsion or
Bye-laws, for re-election if otherwise qualified. suspension of Members of each of the said five classes respectively
8. The Institution shall have such Officers, with such shall be such as the Bye-laws for the time being of the Institution
functions, tenure and terms of office as the Bye-laws of the shall direct.
Institution may prescribe, and such other Officers and Servants as 14. The Council shall alone have power to decide conclusively
the Council of the Institution may from time to time appoint. The first respecting each person proposed for or seeking admission to any class
Secretary of the Institution shall be Chaitanya Chand Seal. of membership of the Institution whether he has or has not fulfilled
such conditions as are applicable to his case.
9. The government and control of the Institution and its affairs
shall be vested in the Council subject to the provisions of these 15. A Member of the Institution shall be entitled to the
Presents and to the Bye-laws for the time being of the Institution. exclusive use after his name of the abbreviated designation
The business of the Council shall be conducted in such manner as the “M.I.E.(Ind.)”; an Associate Member of the abbreviated
Council may from time to time prescribe. designation “A.M.I.E. (Ind.)”; a Companion of the abbreviated
designation “Comp.I.E. (Ind.)”; an Honorary Life Member of the
10. All the powers of the Institution shall be vested in and abbreviated designation “Hon. Life M.I.E. (Ind.)”; and an Honorary
exercisable by the Council except so far as the same are by these Member of the abbreviated designation “Hon. M.I.E. (Ind.)”.
Presents or by the Bye-laws for the time being of the Institution
expressly required to be exercised by the Institution in general 16. Every person being at any time a Corporate Member of the
meeting. Institution may so long as he shall be a Corporate Member take or
use the name or title of “Chartered Engineer (India)”.
11. Unless and until the Bye-laws of the Institution shall
otherwise provide there shall be five classes of Members of the 17. The meetings of the Institution shall be of such classes and
Institution termed respectively Honorary Life Members, Honorary shall be held for such purposes as may from time to time be
prescribed by the Bye-laws of the Institution and the rights of the
Members, Members, Associate Members and Companions, of whom
several classes of members of and of persons attached to the
the Members and Associate Members shall be known as Corporate
Institution of attending and voting at the said meetings shall be such
Members and the Honorary Life Members, Honorary Members and or subject to such restrictions as may be so prescribed.
Companions shall be known as Non-corporate Members.
18. The Corporate Members or the majority of such Members
The Members of the said existing Association or Institution present in person or by proxy and voting at any duly convened
known as the Institution of Engineers (India) who by virtue of these General Meeting of the Corporate Members with respect to which
Presents become Members of the Institution shall be deemed to have notice shall have been given of the matters to be taken into
entered the Institution as Members of the same class as that to which consideration thereat, shall have power from time to time to make
they belonged in the said existing Association or Institution. such Bye-laws of the Institution as to them shall seem requisite and
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convenient for the regulation, government and advantage of the In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be
Institution, its members and property and for the furtherance of the made Patent.
objects and purposes of the Institution and from time to time to revoke,
Witness Ourself at Westminster the ninth day of September in
alter or amend any Bye-law or Bye-laws theretofore made so that
the twenty-sixth year of Our Reign.
the same shall be reasonable and not repugnant to these Presents or
to the Laws and Statutes of India : Provided that no such Bye-law, By Warrant under the King’s Sign Manual.
revocation, alteration or amendment shall take effect until the same
has been allowed by the Lords of Our Privy Council of which
allowance a Certificate under the hand of the Clerk of Our Privy Schuster.
Council shall be conclusive evidence.
19. The first Bye-laws to be made under these Presents shall
be made by the Corporate Members of the Institution within the period SEAL
of twelve months from the date of these Presents, unless the Lords
of Our Privy Council shall see fit to extend such period, of which
extension the Certificate of the Clerk of Our Privy Council shall be
conclusive evidence.
20. Pending the making and approval of the Bye-laws to be
made under these Presents but no longer, the Articles of Association
of the said existing Association or Institution known as the Institution
of Engineers (India) and Bye-laws thereof shall be the Bye-laws of
the Institution and shall have effect as though the Institution, its
Officers and Members, had therein been referred to throughout in
lieu of the said existing Association or Institution, its Officers and
Members.
21. The property and moneys of the said existing Association
or Institution known as the Institution of Engineers (India) (including
the property and moneys (if any) held by them as trustees) shall from
the date of these Presents become and be deemed to be the property
and moneys of the Institution, and shall, as soon as may be, be
formally transferred to the Institution or such person or persons on its
behalf as the Bye-laws may prescribe.
22. And We do hereby, for Us, Our Heirs and Successors Grant
and Declare that these Our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or
exemplification thereof, shall be in all things good, firm, valid and
effectual, according to the true intent and meaning of the same, and
shall be taken, construed and adjudged in all Our Courts or elsewhere
in the most favourable and beneficial sense and for the best
advantage of the said Institution, any mis-recital, non-recital,
omission, defect, imperfection, matter or thing whatsoever
notwithstanding.

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