The Award Ceremony for the year 1999-2000 was held on 12 May 2001 at the Convention Hall of Ashok Hotel, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. Hon'ble Shri Krishan Kant, Vice President of India, gave away the awards for the year 1999 and 2000. The Award Ceremony was followed by a vocal Jugalbandi by Ajoy Chakrabarty and T.N. Seshagopalan. V. Kamlakar Rao accompanied on the Mridangam. The Award Ceremony was followed by a festival of music, dance and theatre from 13 - 21 May 2001 at FICCI Auditorium, Shriram Centre, and Abhimanch, Delhi, Details of the festival programme follows:

Saturday, 12 May (Ashok Hotel, New Delhi) Jugalbandi : Ajoy Chakrabarty-Hindustani Vocal, T.N. Seshagopalan-Carnatic Vocal, V.Kamalakar-Mridangam

Sunday 13 May (FICCI Auditorium, New Delhi) K. Kalyansundaram Pillai's disciple Vani Ganapati-Bharatanatyam, Swapna Sundari-Kuchipudi

Monday 14 May (Shriram Centre, New Delhi) Minati Misra-Odissi, Bharati Shivaji-Mohiniattam, Neyyattinkara Vasudevan-Carnatic Vocal

Tuesday 15 May (Shriram Centre, New Delhi) Paramananda Borbayan's disciples from Uttar Kamaabari Sattra, Assam/Sattriya, Madhavi Mudgal-Odissi, Leela Samson-Bharatanatyam

Wednesday 16 May(Shriram Centre, New Delhi) Shovana Narayan-Kathak, Rajeev Taranath-Sarod, Rita Ganguly-Vocal

Thursday 17 May (Shriram Centre, New Delhi) Mukti, Play in Bengali, featuring Ketaki Dutta, Direction-Usha Ganguly, Presentation-Rangakarmee, Kolkata

Friday 18 May (Shriram Centre, New Delhi) Begaum Jaan play in Hindi, Direction-Nadira Zaheer Babbar, Presentation-Ekjute, Mumbai

Saturday 19 May (Abhimanch Theatre, New Delhi) Appavum Pillayum, play in Tamil, written by:N. Muthuswamy, Direction-V. Arumugam, Presentation-Natrang, Jammu

Sunday 20 May (Abhimanch Theatre, New Delhi) Ghumayee, play in Dogri, Direction: Balwant Thakur, Presetation: Natrang, Jammu

Monday 21 May (Abhimanch Theatre, New Delhi) Sabitri Chatterjee, play reading in Bengali, Seema Biswas-going solo -- 5 minutes of Mrs. Chatterjee.