The interventions under SSA include, building of school infrastructure, provisioning for teachers, periodic teacher training and academic resource support, making available learning resources for children like textbooks, computers, libraries; equity being the focus, residential schools for girls known as the Kasturba Gandhi BalikaVidyalayas have been set up, identification of children with special needs and providing them need based support including aids and appliances;monitoring and supervision for making schools effective and building local level accountability by engaging with community based organisations.