Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru tops demand for borewell contractors as water levels go down: Just Dial Consumer Insights
- Demand for construction services on Justdial rose 26% (YOY) in May’22 with maximum traction coming from the three cities of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru
- Maximum demand for borewell contractors from Chennai, Hyderabad, & Bengaluru
Mumbai, June 8: Demand for home painting services shot up by 29% across India and was the most sought-after construction services followed by civil and borewell contractors, reports the latest Justdial Consumer Report.
Besides painting, civil and borewell contractors, there was also a rise in demand for furniture and ceiling contr actors, making up the top-5 most search construction services on Justdial, India’s No.1 local search engine.
Demand for construction services on Justdial rose 26% (YOY) in May’22 with maximum traction coming from the three cities of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengaluru. Tier-I cities witnessed a demand rise of 17% and Tier-II 41%.
Commenting on the trend, Mr. Prasun Kumar, CMO, Justdial, said: “We have aggregated a wide variety of on-de mand building and construction services on our platform. With this, we have aggregated online a large section of the home construction service providers in the neighbourhood who for long were just dependent on word-of-mo uth marketing. Even our users are now exposed to a wide range of service providers and can now make an informed choice based on the ratings and reviews. This seamless experience has boosted the number of searches happening on Justdial, which has become the go-to platform for any on-demand service.”
For home painting services, Mumbai topped the demand followed by Delhi and Bengaluru in the second and the third place respectively among Tier-I cities. The top-5 Tier-II cities that saw maximum searches for home paintin g services were Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam, and Lucknow.
Mumbai and Hyderabad topped the demand for civil contractors among Tier-I cities with Delhi in the third place. But the number of searches in Mumbai was almost 2X of Hyderabad. Coimbatore, Lucknow, Nagpur, Indore, Pun e, and Patna were the top-5 Tier-II cities that saw maximum demand for civil contractors.
Demand for borewell contractors was high among the three major southern cities of Chennai, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru. Among Tier-II towns and cities, Ranchi saw maximum demand followed by Nagpur, Bhopal, Coimbatore, and Indore.
For furniture contractors, Delhi generated maximum demand followed by Mumbai and Bengaluru in the second and third place, respectively. Among Tier-II cities, Coimbatore and Chandigarh contributed to 90% of the dema nd.
Delhi also led the demand for ceiling contractors among Tier-I cities followed by Chennai and Hyderabad. Amo ng Tier-II cities, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Coimbatore, and Patna were the top-5 with maximum searches for ceiling contractors.
About Just Dial Limited
Just Dial Limited provides local search related services to users in India through multiple platforms such as Desk top/PC website (https://www.justdial.com), mobile site (https://t.justdial.com), mobile apps (Android & iOS), ov er the telephone (Voice, pan India number 88888-88888) and text (SMS). Justdial’s latest version of JD App, is an All-in-One App, replete with features like Map-aided Search, Live TV, Videos, Stock quotes, etc. to make the life of the consumer infinitely smoother & more engaging.
The Company has recently launched its B2B marketplace platform, JD Mart. JD Mart platform, available at http s://www.jdmart.com and via apps on Play Store and App Store, is aimed at enabling millions of India’s manufact urers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers to become internet-ready in post-COVID era, get new customers and sell their products online. The platform offers digital product catalogues to businesses and aims at digitalising India’s businesses, especially MSMEs, across categories. Buyers can discover quality vendors offering a wide selection of products to choose from, spread across millions of categories to suit all B2B needs.
Justdial has also initiated transaction-oriented services for its users. These services aim at making several day-to-day tasks conveniently actionable and accessible to users from one App. With this step, Justdial is transiti oning from being purely a provider of local search and related information to being a direct/ indirect enabler of such transactions. Justdial has also recently launched an end-to-end business management solution for SMEs, through which it intends to transition thousands of SMEs to efficiently run business online and have their adequ ate online presence via their own website, mobile site. Apart from this, Justdial has also launched JD Pay, a un ique solution for quick digital payments for its users and vendors.
