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                              October 20, 2020

       Richard Van Doren
       Chief Financial Officer
       Jiya Acquisition Corp.
       628 Middlefield Road
       Palo Alto, CA 94301

                                                        Re: Jiya Acquisition
Corp.
                                                            Draft Registration
Statement on Form S-1
                                                            Submitted September
24, 2020
                                                            CIK No. 0001824119

       Dear Mr. Van Doren:

              We have reviewed your draft registration statement and have the
following comments. In
       some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so
we may better
       understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
       an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
       EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
       believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.

             After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
       amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
       comments.

       Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1 submitted September 24, 2020

       Risk Factors
       Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and
Delaware law may have
       the effect of discouraging lawsuits..., page 66

   1.                                                   If the warrant
agreement will include a similar provision, please revise your disclosure to
                                                        add a discussion of
that provision.
       Management
       Officers and Directors, page 107

   2.                                                   Please revise your
disclosure to more specifically describe your officers' and directors'
                                                        employment during the
past five years. Please refer to Item 401(e) of Regulation S-K.
 Richard Van Doren
Jiya Acquisition Corp.
October 20, 2020
Page 2
Principal Stockholders, page 115

3.    Please expand the disclosure in footnote (3) to identify the managers of
Jiya Holding
      Company LLC and indicate whether they have voting and investment
discretion with
      respect to the shares.
        You may contact Melissa Gilmore, Staff Accountant, at (202) 551-3777 or
Jean Yu,
Assistant Chief Accountant, at (202) 551-3305 if you have questions regarding
comments on the
financial statements and related matters. Please contact Sergio Chinos, Staff
Attorney, at (202)
551-7844 or Erin Purnell, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3454 with any other
questions.



                                                           Sincerely,
FirstName LastNameRichard Van Doren
                                                           Division of
Corporation Finance
Comapany NameJiya Acquisition Corp.
                                                           Office of
Manufacturing
October 20, 2020 Page 2
cc:       Derek Dostal
FirstName LastName