Introducing Thecho
          Location just about six kilometer south of Lagankhel, Thecho village Development committee is one of the forty village development committees of Lalitpur district. There is sunakothi village development committee in the south from where we can find that Kathmandu valley's plain land ends in its southern parts. From Sunakhoti upward the terraced land starts.
      There are different versions which explain why this village is called ‘Thecho'. The initial name of this village is ‘Dharmatharipur'. According to one version, an interesting incident led to the naming of this village. In the beginning the inhabitants of this village used to live at some lower part of the village named Dyecha. But later on great landslide occurred here and rendered the place quite uninhabitable. Then the inhabitants of this place migrated to the upper part, the present village and settled here. Then if someone asked the villagers where their house was , they replied ‘Chhen choy', ‘Chhen' meaning house and ‘Choy' meaning at the upper part. Later on the term ‘Chhen Choy' deviated and finally become Thecho. It is also said that in the beginning the population of this village was very thin, but later on people from different neighbouring villages also migrated to this village as they found the place beautiful and the land quite fertile. Since a large area of Thecho is situated at a height and people migrated here from the places below it, they started calling it ‘Thaya-cho', ‘Thaya' meaning place and cho indicated some height. Later on the same ‘thaya cho' become Thecho.
Thecho V.D.C.
         Thecho village development committee is situated only six kilometer south of the Lalitpur town. The village surrounded by different neighbouring villages. There are Jharuwarashi Badigaun Harishiddi Godawari and Dhapakhel in the east, Bungimati and Khokana in the west, Sunikhoti in the north and chapagaun, Champii in the south. The Karmanasa rivulet in the east separated this village from Jharuwarashi and Dhapakhel and the Nakhu river in the west separates it from Bungamati and Khokona. But in the north and south there is a small causeway which separates it from other village development committee. The main part of this village is situated at a height. Nakhu river flows down south west of the village and some arable land stretches along this river. During the heavy monsoon the cultivable land is often washed away by the river. There is a small wood land in the southern part but one can see the steep land in the north caused by a landslide. This village is situated at the height of about 4500' (Four thousand Five hundred feet). It is situated at 27°3' north latitude and 85°19' east longitude.