More than 10 lakh job-seekers, including MBAs, engineers and PhD holders, have applied for 4,600 posts of 'talathi' in Maharashtra, a senior official from the land records department said on Wednesday.

A talathi is a revenue department official whose job is to maintain village accounts relating to the demand and collection of land revenue, record of rights and other village forms prescribed by the government and inspect crops and boundary marks and prepare agricultural statistics.