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This paper addresses the issue of admission status ambiguity during the centralized admission process. It reveals the process of deploying a unique way of adding transparency to the system which will benefit the prospective students, parents, admission team and even the management officials. This paper shows an innovative method of displaying the admission allocation and actually admitted students on the Institute website. In Maharashtra, the higher education Institutes admit students through Centralized Admission Process which is conducted by Government of Maharashtra. On the MH CET admission website, the list of allotted students to the Institute is available. There are few admission rounds conducted during the whole process where students get the chance to take admission in the allotted college or to opt for betterment. Some of the seats are available for Institute Level Admission. For these seats also the merit list needs to be displayed based on which the seats in each branch are filled. During this process, Parents and students have to visit various institutes for checking the seat availability in the institutes of their choice. The admission team in every college also have to face certain challenges such as completing the student registration, fees payment etc. including other formalities. This paper attempts to create a web portal which works as Admission Indicator for a particular institute. It displays a number of seats allotted for every branch. It also gives a real time tracking to the students and parents to check how many seats are filled and the count of vacant seats. This Indicator display will help all stakeholders in decision making thereby reducing ambiguity and confusion.