The Paralympic Games are scheduled to take place from August 24th to September 5th 2021. After the massive success of the Indian contingent at the Tokyo Olympics, the entire nation awaits the para-athletes showdown at the Summer Games.The largest contingent of 54 athletes will represent India at the 2021 Paralympics. With most of the para-athletes being in good form, there's scope for an increase in podium finishes at this year's Tokyo Summer Games.With the addition of 35 more athletes, Team India will look to better their 2016 Rio Paralympics performance at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. India bagged two gold, one silver and one bronze at the Rio Paralympic Games.India will participate across nine different disciplines - archery, athletics, badminton, shooting, table tennis, canoeing, swimming, powerlifting and taekwondo at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Out of these nine, badminton and taekwondo will make their debuts at the mega event.#DidYouKnow 🤔#Badminton and #Taekwondo will make their #Paralympics debut at #Tokyo2020@PramodBhagat83 and @ArunaTanwar1 will be representatives from India in those two sports 🙌 pic.twitter.com/aErYvJATIw— #Tokyo2020 for India (@Tokyo2020hi) August 16, 2021 2016 Rio gold medalist Mariyappan Thangavelu will be the Indian flag bearer at the Paralympic Games.Indian athletes at Paralympics: Dates when they are in actionArchery27th AugustMen's Recurve Individual Open - Harvinder Singh, Vivek ChikaraMen's Compound Individual Open - Rakesh Kumar, Shyam Sundar SwamiWomen's Compound Individual Open - Jyoti BaliyanCompound Mixed Team Open - Jyoti Baliyan & TBCBadminton1st SeptemberMen's Singles SL3 - Pramod Bhagat, Manoj SarkarWomen's Singles SU5 - Palak KohliMixed Doubles SL3-SU5 - Pramod Bhagat & Palak Kohli2nd SeptemberMen's Singles SL4 - Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj, Tarun DhillonMen's Singles SS6 - Krishna NagarWomen's Singles SL4 - Parul ParmarWomen's Doubles SL3-SU5 - Parul Parmar & Palak KohliPara Canoeing2 SeptemberWomen's VL2 - Prachi YadavPowerlifting27 AugustMen's 65kg - Jaideep DeswalWomen's 50kg - Sakina KhatunSwimming27 August200 Individual Medley SM7 - Suyash Jadhav3 September50m Butterfly S7 - Suyash Jadhav, Niranjan MukundanTable Tennis25 AugustIndividual C3 - Sonalben Madhubhai PatelIndividual C4 - Bhavina Hasmukhbhai PatelTaekwondo2 SeptemberWomen's K44 -49kg - Aruna TanwarShooting30 AugustMen's R1 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1 - Swaroop Mahavir Unhalkar, Deepak SainiWomen's R2 – 10 m air rifle SH1 - Avani Lekhara31 AugustMen's P1 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Manish Narwal, Deepender Singh, SinghrajWomen's P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1 - Rubina Francis4 SeptemberMixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Sidhartha Babu & Avani Lekhara2 SeptemberMixed P3 - 25 m pistol SH1 - Akash & Rahul Jakhar3 SeptemberMen's R7 - 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Deepak SainiWomen's R8 – 50 m rifle 3 positions SH1 - Avani Lekhara4 SeptemberMixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1 - Akash, Manish Narwal & Singhraj5 SeptemberMixed R6 – 50 m rifle prone SH1 - Deepak Saini, Avani Lekhara & Sidhartha BabuAthletics28 AugustMen's Javelin Throw F57 - Ranjeet Bhati29 AugustMen's Discus Throw F52 - Vinod KumarMen's High Jump T47 - Nishad Kumar, Ram Pal30 AugustMen's Discus Throw F56 - Yogesh KathuniyaMen's Javelin Throw F46 - Sundar Singh Gurjar, Ajeet Singh, Devendra JhajhariaMen's Javelin Throw F64 - Sumit Antil, Sandeep Choudhary31 AugustMen's High Jump T63 - Sharad Kumar, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Varun Singh BhatiWomen's 100m T13 - SimranWomen's Shot Put F34 - Bhagyashri Madavrao Jadhav1 SeptemberMen's Club Throw F51 - Dharambir Nain, Amit Kumar Saroha2 SeptemberMen's Shot Put F35 - Arvind Malik3 SeptemberMen's High Jump T64 - Praveen KumarMen's Javelin Throw F54 - Tek ChandMen's Shot Put F57 - Soman RanaWomen's Club Throw F51 - Ekta Bhyan, Kashish Lakra4 SeptemberMen's Javelin Throw F41 - Navdeep Singh54 Indian athletes will compete in 9 events at the #Paralympics This is #TeamIndia's biggest ever Paralympics contingent ✈️ to #Tokyo2020 Read more about the athletes and events they compete in 👇https://t.co/8katOhqKV1— #Tokyo2020 for India (@Tokyo2020hi) August 16, 2021Indian athletes at Paralympics: Telecast detailsEurosport India will broadcast the Paralympics in India. The Eurosport feed will also be LIVE on the discovery+ app. The Paralympic Games action will also be telecast on DD Sports in India.Also read: When and where to watch the Paralympics 2020 in India? Dates, Timings [IST]