diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/README.md b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/README.md
index 2e76552ba9317..80d2c82fd5068 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/README.md
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/README.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pip install llama-index-readers-jira
 ```
 
 The Jira loader returns a set of issues based on the query provided to the dataloader.
-We can follow two methods to initialize the loader-
+We can follow three methods to initialize the loader-
 1- basic_auth -> this takes a dict with the following keys
 `basic_auth:{
 "email": "email",
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ We can follow two methods to initialize the loader-
 "cloud_id": "cloud_id",
 "api_token": "token"
 }`
+3- Personal access Token with Server hosted instance
+`PATauth:{
+"server_url": "server_url",
+"api_token": "token"
+}`
 
 You can follow this link for more information regarding Oauth2 -> https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/oauth-2-3lo-apps/
 
diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/llama_index/readers/jira/base.py b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/llama_index/readers/jira/base.py
index 5ab0ef0a7f343..a74a6579fead7 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/llama_index/readers/jira/base.py
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/llama_index/readers/jira/base.py
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ class Oauth2(TypedDict):
     api_token: str
 
 
+class PATauth(TypedDict):
+    server_url: str
+    api_token: str
+
+
 class JiraReader(BaseReader):
     """Jira reader. Reads data from Jira issues from passed query.
 
@@ -28,6 +33,10 @@ class JiraReader(BaseReader):
             "cloud_id": "cloud_id",
             "api_token": "token"
         }
+        Optional patauth:{
+            "server_url": "server_url",
+            "api_token": "token"
+        }
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -37,6 +46,7 @@ def __init__(
         server_url: Optional[str] = None,
         BasicAuth: Optional[BasicAuth] = None,
         Oauth2: Optional[Oauth2] = None,
+        PATauth: Optional[PATauth] = None,
     ) -> None:
         from jira import JIRA
 
@@ -53,6 +63,12 @@ def __init__(
                 "headers": {"Authorization": f"Bearer {Oauth2['api_token']}"},
             }
             self.jira = JIRA(options=options)
+        elif PATauth:
+            options = {
+                "server": PATauth["server_url"],
+                "headers": {"Authorization": f"Bearer {PATauth['api_token']}"},
+            }
+            self.jira = JIRA(options=options)
         else:
             self.jira = JIRA(
                 basic_auth=(BasicAuth["email"], BasicAuth["api_token"]),
diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/pyproject.toml b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/pyproject.toml
index 745a3d78efdca..c09dfc768da47 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/pyproject.toml
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-jira/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 maintainers = ["bearguy"]
 name = "llama-index-readers-jira"
 readme = "README.md"
-version = "0.1.3"
+version = "0.1.4"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.8.1,<4.0"