New Delhi: Health care, hospitality, IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) sectors are expected to create 16 lakh jobs this fiscal despite gloomy economic mood, a study by industry body Assocham has said.

"These four sectors -- health care, hospitality, IT and IT-enabled services (ITeS) and media and entertainment -- have not been much affected by the current glum economic scenario. Therefore, these segments are likely to create 16 lakh jobs in 2012-13," Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said.

Among these verticals, healthcare and IT and ITeS would grow the most followed by hospitality and media, he added.

The study said that job creation is happening at all levels in these segments. Even in the engineering and management colleges, the campus placement trends are positive. This trend is likely to continue for another next 6-12 months.

However, it said, segments like aviation, finance, real estate and textiles are sensitive to economic uncertainties.

Health care sector alone is expected to add about 4.5 lakh jobs in 2012-13 and in the IT and ITeS segment more than 3.8 lakh jobs would be created, it added.

The tourism industry, which is on the upswing, may create more than 3.7 lakh jobs in a year, while the media and entertainment industry may create 3.5 lakh jobs.